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...undergraduate at Harvard, the Indiana native spent his time toying with antennae atop the roofs of Hollis Hall and Adams House. He was so interested in amateur radio that he helped to reestablish the long defunct Harvard Wireless Club...
With the draft and stormy world events looming over his generation of college men, Hirschman left the College early and enrolled in medical school at Indiana University, one of many institutions that accepted three-year undergraduates at the time...
...major study to be released in December in The Urban Review journal squarely shows the opposite. Russell Skiba, an associate professor of educational psychology at Indiana University, charted the discipline patterns of 11,000 middle-school students in a major urban district in Indiana, in which black students were more than twice as likely as their white peers to be sent to the principal's office or suspended--and four times as likely to be expelled. When Skiba factored in the financial status of the students and their families, the discipline gap did not budge. But a second finding smacks...
...YOUR FRIENDS Just because Rachel, Ross and the gang of Friends make you laugh doesn't mean they're your buddies. That may seem obvious, but a researcher at Indiana University of Pennsylvania thinks many TV viewers subconsciously register faces they see regularly--even those of actors on the small screen--as friends. Some subjects thought they had a rich social life but may only have been relating well with the couch...
More proof of society's double standards on sex: an Indiana University study found that 40% of girls who had low self-esteem in the seventh grade were having sex by the ninth grade, compared with 18% of girls with a stronger ego. It worked just the other way for boys. Half the boys with high self-esteem were sexually active, vs. just 29% of those with low self-confidence...