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...students when the occasion demands, because the students themselves come and go and have little influence. To cite just one small example, last year at Harvard an enterprising student noticed that the Harvard Coop was selling the required books at high prices. So the student decided to publish a list of required books with their ISBN numbers online to make it easy for students to order them from other sources. As the student made his way through the Coop writing down these numbers, he was threatened with arrest for stealing proprietary information! In the brouhaha that followed, some faculty members...

Author: By Robert L. Freedman | Title: Improving Higher Education | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...Students’ relationship with University Hall is obviously complicated and not merely defined by antagonism or exclusion, but the list of recent slaps to students by administrators is a long one. Even Sundquist’s position—probably the most important sign that substantive change could come to the Ad Board in a century—was not a simple given; Sundquist and the Undergraduate Council fought for months to have a student seated alongside the three faculty members that interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam appointed this winter...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine | Title: Tipping Point? Let’s Hope | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...they would conduct their delegate vote. Party rules prohibit secret ballots, and the group had decided to vote by writing their choice for a state convention delegate on a sheet next to the voter's name. But the sheet - drawn up by the precinct chairwoman, an Obama supporter - had listed the 9 Clinton precinct delegates first, followed by the 16 Obama delegates. This would allow the Obama supporters to see how their rivals had voted before they cast any of their choices, the Clinton supporters argued, enabling them to adjust their strategy on the fly if necessary. Rita Stephan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for Every Texas Delegate | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...parents by the border; the mother, Rosario; a disillusioned recent illegal played by telenovela star Kate del Castillo; Ferrera's second- or third- generation college student; a drifter Carlito meets picking fruit; a security guard with a green card and a shiny truck who courts Rosario; and the list goes on. "It speaks about life on both borders, why people feel the need to come over and what it's like for people while they're here," says Ferrera. "It speaks honestly about life in this country as an immigrant and that it never gets easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hispanic Hit at the Cineplex | 3/28/2008 | See Source »

...Washington and Seoul are focusing all of their energies on getting North Korea to provide a full list of its nuclear activities, including a suspected uranium enrichment program. It promised to do so by the end of last year, but is now four months late. There are also the Six-Party Talks to help Lee realize his North Korea policy objectives as well. "But the prospects for opening those talks don't look very good," says Paik Haksoon at the Sejong Institute in Seoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Koreas: After the Music, Discord | 3/28/2008 | See Source »

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