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...effort to attract more students and reduce the twelve pages its requirements fill in the student handbook, the Classics department unanimously approved a final draft of a new, more flexible curriculum on Tuesday afternoon, according to the department’s director of undergraduate studies, Mark J. Schiefsky. The new set of requirements no longer includes the department’s unique general exams or its decades-old mandatory reading list, although they remain popular with many students. Its seven tracks of study are being reduced to two—Classical Civilizations and Classical Languages and Literatures. The latter track...
Parents also must be educated. According to Lynnda Dahlquist, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and co-author of the chronic-pain chapter in the Handbook of Pediatric Psychology (2003), many parents reinforce avoidance behavior in kids with chronic pain by doing something that comes naturally to parents: being kind to their kids. "Let's say Johnny's back pain flares up during math class," says Dahlquist. "He feels terrible, so he says, 'I can't do my math.' Mom comes, takes him home, puts the TV on and gives him a back rub. Well, math...
...Although Harvard undergraduates are protected against discrimination in the non-discrimination clause of the undergraduate handbook, we do not promise these rights to all Harvard employees who are an integral and vital part of our community. Though the current contract for dining-hall workers includes anti-discrimination language, it is not as strong as the language for students, nor does it outline any mechanism of action to take when an offense occurs. On the other hand, the undergraduate handbook outlines the course of action for students in instances of discrimination. This discrepancy becomes apparent when workers, such...
...course, the folks at PIU have not gone into this airily. The head office worked with team-building experts for a year to devise a handbook that is to be sent to all 175 PIU franchisees around the country. For franchise owners, it's a win-win. They can usually fill their facilities with hordes of birthday-cake-fueled kids on weekends and even after school. But business sags considerably during office hours. (See pictures of office cubicles around the world...
...life when a course of action presents itself with such clarity that there is nothing to do but pursue it,” she wrote in her Guggenheim biography. While she was on the train home from New Delhi for the holidays, Banaji purchased five volumes of the Handbook of Social Psychology edited by Lindzey and Aronson, for five dollars, lured not so much by the books’ content as by their low price. By the time she arrived home 24 hours later, she had already devoured an entire volume. She says the combination of a focus on social...