Word: dockets
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...before the Board to advocate for themselves. The board hears three types of cases: petitions, academic review, and disciplinary cases. Petitions include fairly standard academic requests like taking time off, registering late, or counting courses not taken at Harvard, and take up most of the Board’s docket. It would be grossly inefficient for students to be present for such routine decisions. But in disciplinary cases and academic reviews, which can lead to students being asked to leave Harvard for a year or longer, students are often not allowed to speak to the Board. Indeed, they are only...
There are more than a couple 0-1’s on the docket this week attached to teams that entered the year with legitimate title aspirations. Penn, Princeton, and Harvard all started 2007 with losses last Saturday. Yet here’s the beauty—or ludicrousness, depending on how you look at it—of the Ivy League: non-conference play is purely for pride. There will be no playoffs, no Week 11, no matter what. Strength of schedule, quality losses, margin of victory—they’re all extraneous concepts. It?...
...rise above politics in order to focus on the big picture. “The response [to his appointment] in the education community has been so overwhelmingly positive because nobody feels like they’re going to be excluded,” Norton said. Reville faces a full docket this fall, between the retirement of state education commissioner David P. Driscoll and the beginning of a 10-year plan to overhaul public education in Massachusetts. Still, Reville remain optimistic about the challenges balancing his duties at the GSE with his new position on Beacon Hill...
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...Faust’s docket may be filled with unfinished projects, but the president-elect has also tried to save room for her own initiatives, one of which is a project to enhance the arts at Harvard...