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...beginning to appear already. We of the DotNet generation are more involved in volunteer work and community problem-solving than those who came before us—more invested in our personal connections to civic life—but we are less attuned to national politics, less likely to contact our political representatives, and less likely to vote. The University cannot force students to care about campus decision-making any more than it can force them to read newspapers. But as it undergoes self-reflection, it can remember that our college education is not merely what goes on inside...
...coffeehouse in the style of those in Pamplona. It took her three years searching for a suitable location and working a $36 per week job to pay for it. It was more than just about coffee. “I thought this was the only way I could have contact with people,” she told us in a conversation this week at her residence above the Bow Street café.Quickly, her little coffeehouse became one of the worst-kept secrets in Cambridge. A couple from Chicago urged Josefina to open another Café Pamplona in Chicago...
...hopes to establish to hire women and minority faculty.“I hope that $50 million is only a beginning for the long run,” Dean of the Divinity School William A. Graham, who served on the original task force and, as dean, has been in contact with Hammonds’ office throughout the year, writes in an e-mail.Hammonds says she anticipates additional spending on mentorship programs and another, more detailed, survey to be conducted this year.“These are just the initial steps,” she writes in an e-mail.LAYING THE GROUNDWORKBut professors...
...Corporation members Nannerl O. Keohane and Robert D. Reischauer ’63, the Kirby episode intensified a desire to remove Summers from office, according to the individual close to the Corporation. Both had been in frequent contact with Faculty members over the course of the year, and as early as November, they each spoke privately about the possibility of forcing Summers to resign, according to the source...
...thing, the café will be built in the same place that first brought me into contact with all the best parts of Lamont: the reference room, replacing the people who are the very core of Lamont’s resources. Moreover, reports of the Lamont renovation committee suggest that the reference desk will move to the third-floor stacks. Where, then, will we put the students who study there? And how will the main reading room preserve any quiet...