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...light of the decision by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of FAS, to cancel the January meeting. FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said he was unconcerned with the delay. “The lack of a Faculty Meeting in January won’t impair our forward progress,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We will be able to get all of our current docket items onto the Feb. agenda.” Professors have already been given the option of allowing their students to evaluate courses after final exams, according...
...hinders their ability to stop, as it did mine. While many boldly proclaim what they would or would not let happen to them if they ever “pledged,” they incorrectly assume that they would be free from any emotional or physical trauma that would impair their judgment. In the midst of such an experience, one does not always see themselves or their situation so clearly—hence the word “hazing...
...increase in digitization, one question weighs heavily on the minds of many involved with the Harvard library system: how will this change the role of the book? There doesn’t seem to be an easy answer. Both Verba and Darnton share an opinion that digitization may not impair book readership and sales, but could actually boost them instead. “There’s something about a book, and it is also one of the world’s greatest technologies, in that it is a technology that doesn’t change,” says...
...diagnosis of epilepsy, say experts, may not necessarily mean that Roberts will have to take anti-seizure medication, which can control the electrical activity of the brain, or have to be concerned that future events will impair his ability to function on the Supreme Court. "Epilepsy diagnosis is a meaningless term in this case," says Dr. Frank Gilliam, director of the epilepsy center at Columbia University Medical Center, who is not involved in the medical care of Justice Roberts. He notes that 1% of the U.S. population is diagnosed with epilepsy, and one-third of these cases are relatively benign...
Other disputes, though not lethal, changed lives. In 1883 Sir Francis Galton, an English anthropologist, coined the word eugenics, which he later defined as the study of hereditary factors that "improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations." Inspired by eugenics, a number of U.S. states passed laws in the early 20th century allowing those presumed to have bad genes to be sterilized by government order. In 1927 the case of Carrie Buck, a young woman in a Virginia home for the feebleminded, reached the Supreme Court. Writing for an 8-1 decision, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said...