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...intrigued by the interplay of Facebook and academics,” she said. Recently, many news sources have cited Karpinski’s findings when making the claim that Facebook itself is a cause of lower academic performance. But Karpinski’s data only demonstrates correlation, not causation. Kevin Lewis, who is a Ph.D. Candidate in the sociology department at Harvard and has studied Facebook interactions, wrote in an e-mail statement, “What this study tells us is that there is an association between being a member of Facebook and having a lower GPA; it tells...
...more competitive rates and arrangements for borrowers. “Everyone shares profits equally through lower rates,” Foley said, explaining that the credit union acts in the interest of all its members. Harvard administrators are not negotiating with any other lenders at the moment, University spokesman Kevin Galvin said, as the graduate schools have already begun to accept students for the next academic year. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...compete at a pretty high level. I think everybody involved would agree that a whole new level is waiting for him.”For now, only time will tell just how far Weiler will go, and how much higher he will vault.—Staff writer Kevin T. Chen can be reached at ktchen@fas.harvard.edu...
Noted hip-hop poet Kevin Coval came to Quincy House yesterday, bringing his professional artistic pedigree to a student-organized open-mic and slam poetry event that aimed to spur creative discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sponsored by the Progressive Jewish Alliance, the Society of Arab Students, and the Harvard Spoken Word Society, yesterday’s event marked an innovative attempt at using an artistic performance to address issues of faith and politics, according to Jason W. Schnier ’11, chair of the Progressive Jewish Alliance. “[The event] was conceptualized...
...Kevin Gibson, managing director of headhunting firm Robert Walters Japan, says he, too, is witnessing a flight to risk-free industries. "We see a gravitation away from banking and, oddly enough, manufacturing is perceived as insecure now," Gibson says. Robert Walters is placing a large number of executive and management talent into health care and the pharmaceutical industry. "It's getting fantastic people from I.T. and banking - people that [those industries] wouldn't normally be able to employ." But Gibson says the brain drain from old-guard companies may not last. "Media spent so much time beating up on these...