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...legislation also requires freshmen to have a documented meeting with at least one departmental adviser in their second semester.Professors voted down an amendment Tuesday that would have required students to fill out a plan of study as part of this meeting.Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Director of Undergraduate Studies Howard Georgi ’68, who sponsored the defeated amendment, wrote in an e-mail that the plan of study would ensure that students “look carefully at their schedules and avoid mistakes that will be costly to them later in their academic careers.”Georgi...
...Perhaps his most humorous story concerns Robert Clarke, “a young and promising Civilian in Kashmir.” The strapping young man became romantically involved with Mrs. George Howard, the widow of the chaplain from the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment. Clarke’s problems, however, stem from his relationship with Mrs. Howard’s daughter who was “decidedly big for her age and very good looking...
...social injustice in a different manner—he raps about it. Kabir Sen, a Wesleyan University graduate and son of Lamont University Professor Sen, will release his third album, “Peaceful Solutions,” on April 25. According to the rapper’s manager, Howard Turkenkopf, Kabir’s first two albums were well received. “His stuff has a lot more in terms of intelligence and a sort of literary feel to it,” Turkenkopf said. “It is more poetic in nature compared...
...Observatory in Harvard, Mass. It is the first optical telescope dedicated specifically to the search for alien life. “About half [the people we talk to] think we’re looking for UFOs, and I try to dispel that notion,” says Andrew W. Howard, a graduate student working on the project. So they’re not searching for giant saucers in the sky or some Twilight Zone-style phenomena. Instead, they’re hoping to identify extraterrestrial communication, in the form of light flashes from distant civilizations. But don?...
...Would it have been better if Studi Cattolici had not run the cartoon in the first place? For that matter, would it be better if on May 19 we were to discover that director Ron Howard had decided not to paint the grotesque portrait of Opus (which has its weirdnesses, but probably not including assassination) that Dan Brown did in his novel...