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...April interview, Flores also voiced concerns that the campaign would be too costly in the current economic climate and would “distract?? from the UC’s other responsibilities, including grant-giving and advocacy...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: UC Meeting Ends in Contentious Vote on Social Space | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...father’s undergraduate classes in 1967, women still could not receive a Harvard diploma and were not allowed to even enter Lamont Library, for fear they would “distract?? the boys from studying. By 1977, the feminist movement was in full swing nationally, but it was still a fight for a woman to be taken seriously as a student here. But, after the initial merger agreement with Radcliffe that gender-integrated Harvard College, women began demanding a women’s center. They were the first stirrings of a push that would continue...

Author: By Shauna L. Shames | Title: To the Women of the College | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...consortium—the first of an array to come under the new Harvard Interdisciplinary Consortia—is open to Ph.D. or Sc.D. Harvard students who have completed at least one year in their home departments or schools. The program is not designed to “distract?? students from their research or supplant requirements within their programs, according to Schrag. Rather, the consortium will provide “a little bit of breadth and exposure” to energy and environment issues, he said. “We’re going...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Interdisciplinary Consortium To Study Energy and Environment | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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