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...time of disaster, you're the citizens' leader, more so than any other time. You're their counselor, their coach, their cheerleader, their security giver--you're all those things. There's a grieving process after a disaster, and you have to get the spirit up and keep it up. You're helping people get to the rebuilding stage. Their houses are a shambles--or gone--but they have to get up in the morning and take that step forward. --Compiled by Jeff Chu/New York and Zamira Loebis/Banda Aceh
...giving birth,” which she says require extra time off. Martin and her colleagues are looking to create such a maternity leave policy for women having babies. Although the University currently offers a one semester teaching relief policy to any parent who is a primary care giver, this new policy would “recognize the disability and time needed for giving birth.”If instituted, this maternity leave would supplement two existing child care funds created by Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby: a dependent care fund that covers childcare expenses for professors traveling...
...follows the first frost. The etymology of the term “Indian Summer” is oft-debated and Wofsy noted the term is also politically incorrect. One theory says the term “Indian Summer” is related to the term “Indian giver,” which refers to the way the Native Americans sold their wares. They handed their wares out to the settlers, and the settlers assumed they were gifts, and subsequently became unpleasantly surprised when they were expected to pay or give back the gifts. Therefore, an Indian summer...
...light of these two previous missteps, the gag order is especially troubling. We firmly believe that no researcher should feel stifled by his or her University. Such a large and complicated grant necessitates transparent communication between the grant giver and the grant recipient. Disrupting that communication with a gag order is, at least, another annoying layer of red tape stymieing Kanki from fulfilling the stipulations of her grant. At most, as an official from the Association of American University Professors recently said, it constitutes an infringement on Kanki’s academic freedom...
Lang has long since moved on from checkers to American technology, which he hustles lucratively in some 45 foreign countries. But he retains his devotion to education, no longer as a recipient but as a formidable giver. "It's what I do for fun," he chuckles. Three weeks ago, the philanthropist clearly was having fun at a ceremony at New York City's eclectic New School for Social Research. The school's tiny (195 students) Seminar College, which offers a program of reading in the classics steered by seminars, was being renamed Eugene Lang College. And why not? Lang...