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...that’s true, obviously the fact that we have a high proportion of male tenured faculty for historical reasons might lead women to have a harder time being successful,” Bell says...
There are certainly other factors why one would choose to drink rather than smoke. One might be the fact that weed is illegal. However, many students might cite this as a deterrent and still partake in the just-as-illegal act of underage drinking. Additionally, it is true that weed is not a perfect practical substitute for drinking, as drinking is a more “party friendly” than marijuana. Yet another factor might be that the purchase of marijuana could bring about negative externalities to a community, such as drug dealers, gangs, and violence...
...earlier version of the Apr. 14 news article "Graduate Student Teaching Fellows Lost in Translation" incorrectly suggested that there is a total of 230 international students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In fact, the 230 figure refers to the approximate number of incoming international students each year...
...sport or writing a thesis. It seems fairly obvious that these thus-committed students did not need conceive of a need for additional programming. However, it does not follow that students who were off-campus this past Winter Break would not have appreciated additional programming, given the opportunity. In fact, this sub-group is the one which would most benefit from the College facilitating the J-Term experience to a greater extent, not thesis writers and winter athletes...
...Birney accounted for the narrow difference in many states that Clay lost, and probably cost abolitionists the presidency decades before the Civil War. In 1912, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene Debs created a jumbled electoral confusion and allowed Woodrow Wilson to waltz to the presidency despite the fact that Taft and Roosevelt combined had won far more votes for a more conservative agenda...