Word: franklins
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...undergrads—his main focus—he tweaked the concentration requirements. “Here, you can decide your sophomore year that you want to get physics and get a degree,” Professor of Physics Melissa E.B. Franklin says. “That makes it better for women and minorities because there’s not always that same background in math...
During his tenure as chair, he not only increased the proportion of female undergraduates in the department, but also brought Franklin to tenure as the university’s first female physics professor...
...temptation to support only the purest and most needy charities hurts more than it helps. The Red Cross doesn’t allow gay men to give blood, an unnecessary restriction that reinforces harmful stereotypes. The Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt supported Strom Thurmond. The labor movement once tolerated unions that discriminated against women and minorities. But if donors had boycotted these institutions, America wouldn’t have blood drives, the New Deal, or the weekend. Sometimes if you want to support a positive outcome you have to be willing to accept the bad deeds of good organizations...
...missed Dartmouth free throws later, and feeding off of a frenzied crowd, Shana Franklin threw the most important Harvard dagger of the game—a three-pointer at 4:42 from a Cserny assist that gave the Crimson its first lead since the first half...
After receiving an e-mail from The Crimson detailing the site’s failure to attribute quotations, Franklin M. Steen, the director of computer services for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), said Friday evening that “we’ve taken the site down and we will fix it, put the attributions on there, and get the proper permissions.” One day later, the site was still up and running, although it was taken down early Sunday...