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Troubled individuals may also have watched the mounting catastrophes garner attention and taken a cue. Like a sore throat, suicide can be contagious. "One suicide in a community can become a trigger for other people who are at risk," Waterson explains. Suicide clusters generally occur among teenagers and young adults, though patterns have been reported in groups of marine troops, religious sects and psychiatric inpatients. But the cases in Gnosall cover a broad age spectrum, and the deceased, by all accounts, were not close to one another. Khan points out that the suicide rate has fallen there in the past...
...case in point, according to Ragalie, is the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE)—a body that includes five students and five members of the Faculty Council, the 18-professor governing board of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The arrangement used to allow students to have a say in what sorts of issues were funneled directly to the Faculty...
...More recently, however, many of the important roles and reviews that might have been handled by the CUE have been usurped by another body—the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), which until 2005 included no students and now—as Petersen dismissively notes—retains only two undergraduates together with 18 high-ranking deans and administrators...
...translator was needed between Azerbaijani singer Alim Qasimov and the rest of the Silk Road Ensemble once they began playing together. When Qasimov, wanted to cue the other musicians to add new segments, he would mimic the motion of playing an instrument, and together the ensemble began smoothing the gaps between movements. In an age where everything seems to be inter-something (international, interdisciplinary, intercultural) it’s surprising that the world has not been blended into one big smudge. Although the Silk Road Project falls under the category of “inter...
Next semester, students may not have to risk being kicked out of the Coop to get the ISBN numbers of their textbooks. In its meeting last week, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) discussed a proposal to create a database, the Harvard College Book Information System, where students could find the ISBN numbers of each book on every course syllabus. We wholeheartedly support such an initiative, which would make it easier for students to comparison-shop online and save money on their books. Although the Coop provides the conveniences of centralization and proximity, its virtual monopoly on ISBN numbers...