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...publication has also suffered from the recent termination of the Women’s Center’s Ann Radcliffe Trust Grant, which had previously supported Freeze. To continue publication, the publication has reduced the size of their minimags, and Hanger says she does not foresee more problems...

Author: By Brian Mejia and Beverly E. Pozuelos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Student Periodicals Cope With Downturn | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...happiness and judge their success by their relationships. Men’s happiness and success hinge on their accomplishments.” Even in public schools, many abstinence-only programs are run by religious organizations. For example, the federal government gave the Catholic Diocese of Orlando an $800,000 grant to teach abstinence. This intermingling of church and state would be inappropriate enough even if it did not translate to religiously biased teaching. But, in many cases, the House report found it did just that, as the program promoted religious dogma such as the belief that life begins at conception...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Abstaining from Ignorance | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...sets rarely inspire anyone to grand existential epiphanies. (Does anybody actually read the American Journal of Psychology for fun?) The recent offerings instead glide seamlessly from real cognitive scientific results into life prescriptions of the kind traditionally proffered by fields like religion and literature. The current overseer of the Grant Study results, George Vaillant, himself studied not psychology but history and literature when he was at Harvard; indeed, it may be the literary quality of many psychological findings that makes them go down so smooth for a meaning-hungry public. In my tutorial this year, Freud was sandwiched...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Squeezing the Lemon | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...poetry, then science must be mere prose. But where does that leave us? With my own sophomore year winding to a close, I think of the infinite possibility those Harvard men must have felt, believing that they were contributing to making the world a better place. To deny the Grant Study its ambitious objective to pinpoint the causes of happiness has a whiff of the wet blanket about it. But there’s something even more miserable about thinking that our happiness can be defined by the jobs we choose, or what we eat for breakfast, or how many...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Squeezing the Lemon | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...Studies, will be contacted directly by those organizations regarding any changes. Winnie said that there is one Harvard-sponsored internship program in Mexico run by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. In addition, there are half a dozen undergraduates researching or traveling in the country on Harvard grants. Students may still opt out of attending university-sponsored travels to Mexico if they are personally concerned about the outbreak. “We understand that one’s health is a very personal thing. If a student decides not to go to Mexico, we will sit down with...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College To Keep Trips to Mexico | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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