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...same time attempting to reassure jittery students. At Columbia University in New York City - where a graduate student on Sunday received a diagnosis of Type A influenza, which has been linked to swine flu - the assistant vice president for health services, Dr. Samuel Seward, sent an e-mail to students urging them to cover their mouths when they sneeze and to clean things they touch often, like computer keyboards. "Avoid holding, hugging or kissing anyone who has a cold or the flu," he advised. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
Harvard Square’s recession-pinched businesses are now targeting students through a new e-mail list launched by student-run business Unofficial Tours. The e-mail list, which went live on Monday at www.harvardbargainblast.com, is a biweekly newsletter touting exclusive offers for Harvard students from businesses like the bar Tommy Doyle’s and the local hamburger chain b.good. As extra incentive to sign up, the first 100 people to subscribe will receive automatic gift certificates to b.good, burrito chain Qdoba, or the restaurant Grendel’s Den. All who sign up are entered...
About a month ago, Nur Munir—a candidate for a masters degree at the Harvard Divinity School—stopped showing up to his classes. Last week, Baber Johansen, one of Munir’s professors, received an e-mail that explained his student’s month-long absence. The e-mail stated that Munir had been detained for the past month by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement at York County Prison in York, Pa., on charges of illegal residence in the United States after his application for political asylum was denied. Although Munir had applied...
...service that allows users to upload snippets of text, or “tweets,” from a computer or mobile device and send them to interested parties. Subscribers can choose to receive the updates via text message on their mobile phones or to be notified by e-mail. The new account is GSE’s second twitter feed. The first one—named “hgse”— launched in early February and is used to report general school news and information about upcoming events. Subscribers occupy a broad range within...
...introduction of laptops and wireless Internet into the classroom environment has allowed us to prioritize our time in a highly pragmatic way. No longer are the choices in class between doodling in a notebook and paying attention; now we have an entire workstation at our fingertips. We can e-mail, organize, and update away while a professor is explaining easy or boring material that presumably doesn’t warrant full attention...