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...recruiters. Harris is planning calendar reform with Donald H. Pfister, an organismic and evolutionary biology professor who is also chairing the Ad Board Review Committee. Although a feasibility study on calendar reform won’t come out until at least September, Harris stressed the continued importance of student input in the process. The methods for such input remain nebulous at the moment, but Harris emphasized its necessity. “University administrators can think all they want about J-terms, but if it isn’t what students want, and if it isn’t what students...
...centerpiece of this doomsday vision is the idea that civilization—which he defines as “a way of life characterized by the growth of cities”—is inherently unsustainable because it requires an ever-expanding input of resources and involves the wholesale destruction of nature. All social, technological, and political efforts to alleviate environmental problems are futile; instead, we should prepare ourselves for the fallout by learning about nature, so as to live peacefully without the squalid human world, using only “what the land gives willingly...
...News aims to objectively assess schools based on several elements including scores on standardized tests, the average undergraduate GPA, and input from deans, faculty, recruiters and professionals. Numerical scores are assigned based on a formula that takes these factors into account...
...York, wondering whether Darfur, in particular, will be a high water mark for the idea of an "international responsibility to protect." Says de Waal: "For complex peacekeeping operations to work - i.e. those that involve civilian protection, rebuilding governance structures - they seem to need such a high ratio of input to outcome that they are feasible only in small places like Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone ... and possibly the Comoros. Try doing it on a larger scale with a serious government in place and it's almost impossible. What is possible in cases like Darfur is more conventional peacekeeping based...
...cultivation of House life, it must uphold its end of the bargain and make houses a place of comfort and trust. Today, upperclassmen welcome freshmen into their House communities—communities that should be built on mutual respect between the College, House administrators, and students. By encouraging student input in residential decision-making and respecting unofficial promises made to undergrads, the College will foster healthier residential life—which might just make up for the bunk beds...