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...like much of my world is simply going to be uprooted and transplanted to New York City after June 4. NYC is the Mecca of the social and economic lives of Harvard students in the real world: Not only is it perceived as being the natural—often default??next stop in the lives of the young graduates of elite colleges, but New York’s glossiness also indicates a sort of ultimate achievement of the cosmopolitan refinement and worldliness that Harvard students work so hard to cultivate and realize...
...pathways in brain functioning. Buckner said in an interview yesterday that he has also focused on the effects of aging and disease on memory. Buckner observed that the plaques which cause Alzheimer’s disease form on areas of the brain that are used in “default?? brain activity. In other words, he said, Alzheimer’s seems to be affecting the much-used brain areas that are active when people are not doing or thinking about anything in particular. Buckner has collaborated extensively in the past with Harvard Professor of Psychology Daniel...
Laibson disagreed, however, pointing to the EPC’s recommendation that concentration choice be delayed until the middle of sophomore year. This would give students less encouragement to “default?? to courses in popular departments, he said...
...conventionally political tactics like petitions and—as I suspect will be shown by this afternoon’s meeting—“get out the vote” drives. If this conversation takes place on such political terms, Summers will have won by default??bringing Washington politics to a university that has thus far resisted them. In short, with Harvard in the media spotlight, unusual power has fallen to those who never liked the notion of a university—who have long argued that the professorship is a cushy position that involves...
...administration’s recent efforts are good, more can still be done to help improve this system. The Council of Masters recently decided to allow each undergraduate House to determine its own policy on keycard access—with universal keycard access (UKA) being the “default?? system in place beginning this September. The Council’s decision is a long awaited and encouraging step, but the fact that Houses can still opt out undermines the effectiveness of the change. We strongly encourage all House masters to adopt the default system. Students?...