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...venerable Harvard institutions, the Administrative Board of Harvard College likely holds the distinction of engendering the most anxiety among students. The Board, composed of resident deans, faculty, and administrators, applies faculty rules in regard to undergraduate education and conduct. Critics of the Board argue that its procedures are obscure, that it is inadequately supportive and representative of students, and that encounters with it can be downright terrifying. After 18 months of reviewing the Board, we have proposed modifications that will make the Board’s actions more transparent, increase student support, and improve the educational work of the Board...
Hammonds will increase faculty representation on the Board. The rules governing student conduct are faculty rules—formulated and legislated by the faculty—and therefore faculty must take a greater role in their application...
...plot hinges on a takeover bid by one branch of the Lohias for the whole company. There is the patriarch, whose dignified conduct leaves him helpless in the face of the aggressive global marketplace; his dissolute nephew, rebelling after years of frustrated obedience; and his daughter, a young woman becoming keenly aware of her sexual power. Such drama could easily veer into soap opera, but Chowdhury uses his experience as a business journalist to turn the machinations of finance into the stuff of suspense, elegantly connecting the shadowy moneylenders of Mumbai to the gleaming towers of Hong Kong...
...hope,” Berenson once wrote.When Berenson died in October of 1959, at the age of 94, he bequeathed his estate, along with his library and art collection, to Harvard in the hopes that I Tatti would become a center of humanistic learning where younger scholars could come conduct research and encounter new ideas. And since it was first given to Harvard in 1959, Berenson’s Villa has become just that—an institutionalized arcadia that offers a small community of scholars the opportunity to nourish themselves with all the fruits of Berenson?...
While there may be commercial value for using Twitter to communicate with customers, the danger is that the Twitter community could turn against a marketer viewed as being too crass by being relentlessly self-promoting. Twitter users have set up their own rules of conduct when using the service, not unlike those with MySpace and Facebook. These rules were not put together by Twitter itself, which mandates only rules of use. Like many social-network sites, Twitter is self-governed by its members, and companies must take that into account as they join the service...