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ANTHONY G. GUMBS Glendale Heights, Ill...
...time—drinking soda can cause obesity. One of the studies, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, said that increased soda consumption in adolescent girls can predict increases in weight. This study, and another in the Journal of American Clinical Nutrition, add to the growing literature of the ill effects of soda. “Over the long term, the excess calories [from soda] lead to weight gain and there is evidence that over the last decade caloric intake from sugar-sweetened beverages have gone up,” said Eric B. Rimm, associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition...
...with freshmen. Far too many prefects find themselves in the precarious situation of dispensing “social” advice to freshmen, while being unable to—in fact, prohibited from—socializing with their prefectees in standard College social contexts or answering their academic questions. Ill-attended weekly chips and salsa sessions ensue; the conversation is often dull, and prefects themselves sometimes fail to attend. To be clear, there is nothing wrong with the prefects themselves. They are, sadly, constrained by an institution confused in its purpose. Asked to do little, it does little in return...
...works closely with partners in supporting shelters for abandoned children and trafficked women,” Hong, now LiNK’s executive director, wrote in an e-mail. “Among those in our shelters include women who had been trafficked as sexual slaves, orphans, and terminally ill or disabled individuals.” Like the national organization—which attempts to raise public awareness while also working directly with governments and NGOs—the Harvard LiNK chapter plans a combination of events on campus, beginning with a screening of the documentary “Seoul...
...expressed concerns with the length of travel time on the T. “There are very few Harvard undergraduates who can spend two hours out of their day to travel in addition to two hours of tutoring,” he said. FiCom members said they harbored no ill will toward Mission Hill. “We love Mission Hill unanimously,” Adelman said. But she said that in last night’s vote to overrule her committee’s policy, “there was something lost from the Finance Committee?...