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...image of gay unity that the group aims to foster can be illusory, board members say. The group increasingly has trouble attracting active members and has tempered its trademark outspokenness in recent months to appeal to a wider portion of the gay community at Harvard...
Currently, the Institute is governed by two distinct mission statements. It will foster all kinds of academic research and artistic achievement, but must maintain a specific commitment to the study of women and gender. We urge the Institute to prioritize the latter. Although Faust has noted that these two missions do not necessarily need to be separated within the Institute, they will come into tension with each other when it comes to selecting research topics and allocating capital and space resources...
...going to miss him," Kiana C. Foster '02 said...
...hours a day, you can join the 1.7 million people who have downloaded SETI@home, a free screen saver (available at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody's going to burn you at the stake...
...This helps the kids know that it's a place that belongs to them, so they need to respect it," says Maurice W. Melchiono, a nurse practitioner who volunteers with the medical van. "It's important for us to be able to foster a sense of safety for the teenagers...