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PEOPLE who say that you can't learn anything from popular television have obviously never watched Family Feud. The lesson I just learned from that game show is that we continue to live in a sexist society...
...father is wholeheartedly for Yale," said Sonia C. Lee '91, whose father, Hong Yung Lee, is an assistant professor at a major Connecticut Ivy League institution. Lee said she'll be rooting for her own team--"otherwise it's not a family feud"--in spite of the fact that a Yale paycheck is financing her tuition. "People are not going to be disowned because of this issue," she said hopefully...
Since it was founded in 1976, Yale's program has assumed the unusual role of training both future corporate leaders and government and nonprofit administrators. While that will continue, Schmidt plans to focus on traditional teaching methods. He hopes to end a debilitating feud between professors of standard academic subjects such as finance and accounting and those, chiefly in organizational behavior, who emphasize role playing and the importance of human relations in settling disputes. "Relations had deteriorated to where faculty members were barely civil to each other," said finance professor Stephen Ross. After last week's turmoil, a new class...
...university president has a longstanding feud with his own faculty since the 1960s. Twice the faculty has voted no confidence in his administration and has attempted to boot him out of office. Some accuse him of refusing pay raises and tenure to professors who disagree with him. Last January, when the professors attempted to form a chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at B.U., Silber took them to court and prevented the affiliation...
This year the rivals may well vie for dominance in table tennis and baseball. But the focus of their feud will come in the Japanese sport of judo, where Korean and Japanese judoka should fight it out for the gold in three events. One Japanese, Shinji Hosokawa, came out of retirement specifically to face his Korean nemesis, Kim Jae Yup. To make matters even more interesting, the largest group of foreigners at the Games is, of course, from Japan -- eager, no doubt, to see how often Nippon can score an ippon...