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What do metalsmithing, manners, and Microsoft Excel have in common? If Jay M. Harris and the Undergraduate Council’s ideas come to fruition, you could spend your first January term, or “J-term,” taking a three-week course in such subjects. For 45 minutes at last night’s Undergraduate Council (UC) meeting, Harris, the chair of the Gen Ed Committee, and Council members traded opinions about a J-term, the optional winter term in January that will be implemented along with the new calendar in 2009-2010. Debate focused...
...Wilson ’88, a NASA astronaut, was given the Women’s Professional Achievement Award. “We recognize outstanding seniors at Harvard who have made contributions to the community and whose example can serve as an inspiration for other women at Harvard to excel,” said Women’s Center director Susan B. Marine. Harvard students and faculty nominated 54 senior women, of whom 33 completed the application to receive recognition. The nominees include leaders of student organizations, active volunteers at the Philip Brooks House Association, and participants in arts or athletics...
...Santa Paula, Calif.; Christendom College in Front Royal, Va.; and Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Fla. The numbers are tiny--the three colleges combined claim some 1,200 undergrads--but they are precisely the kind of eruptions of non-state-related religious vitality at which he thinks we excel...
...supporters to see how their rivals had voted before they cast any of their choices, the Clinton supporters argued, enabling them to adjust their strategy on the fly if necessary. Rita Stephan, the 35-year-old precinct chairman, a college professor and self-described soccer mom, had used an Excel spreadsheet to generate the list and insisted there was no dark strategy behind the way the names were listed...
...majors turning into minors? Despite the bad news, that fate remains some way off. Big record companies still excel at winning their bands airtime or prime space on stores' shelves. And for every rebuff from a Madonna, there's an award for a Winehouse, thanks to support from tuned-in record execs. "It's all very well to say bands can do it all themselves; some don't want to," says Max Hole, executive vice president of Universal Music Group International, which oversees Winehouse's label. Many now acting alone admit they got a leg up from a record company...