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...year, whereas a men's shirt only lasts a few months." It also provides a chance for men to join the accessories fun that women have been having for years without risking their masculinity. Apparently, the key is for them to look as if they're traveling. Function over fashion after...
...about the future of the freshman experience at Harvard.” Shaan K. Hathiramani ’08, a prefect, said the outcry resulting from the announcement of the 20-year-old program’s dissolution shows that many undergraduates at the College care deeply about its function. “I was very happy to hear that the administration is so committed to the prefect program,” he said. “We are working to promote the goals and the vision of the prefect program coupled with the long overdue responsibility of academic advising...
...freshmen entryways as prefects.The program is currently administered by the Freshman Dean’s Office. The Curricular Review’s Report on Advising and Counseling, released in December, calls for the institution of peer advisers that would “replace and augment the integration and introductory function performed by participants in such existing programs as the Prefect Program.”Chadbourne, who is the former chair of the SAC, said the decision to terminate the Prefect Program did not come as a surprise to him because of the recommendations in the report. According to the document...
Everybody hurts-even powerful members of Congress.That's why the medical office in the Capitol that cares for members of the House and Senate has a psychiatrist on call when the nation's legislators need a sympathetic ear. This little-known function of the secretive Capitol Office of the Attending Physician, run by the Navy, was exposed in a recent court filing in the case of former Congressman Duke Cunningham, sentenced last week to eight years and four months in prison, after admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors...
...wrote that Summers’ “Washington-style politics” sealed his fate. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway painted a memorable picture of the management landscape of a successful, large university like Harvard. “Universities,” she wrote, “function adequately enough when everyone is left to their own devices. Incompetent management seems not to matter, the ship goes on sailing. The trouble comes when drastic change is needed.” By her reckoning, Summers’ attempts at any change put him in the Faculty’s sights...