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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...
...whom have served with him both at the Kennedy School and in Washington for decades. “[Campbell] has been a thoughtful, reflective student of Asia for two decades,” wrote Belfer Center Director and Kennedy School Professor Graham T. Allison Jr. in an e-mail on Saturday. Allison, who originally hired Campbell as an assistant professor at the Kennedy School, has known Campbell for 20 years. His sentiments were echoed by Professor Ashton B. Carter, a Belfer Center member who has also known Campbell for two decades and was confirmed as the Pentagon?...
Elliot Ikheloa ’11, president of the Black Men’s Forum, declined to comment on the sentiments of the organization. But he wrote in an e-mail that “it is comforting for myself and for others to see that Harvard is taking steps to make our campus a more welcoming environment.” Ikheloa is an inactive Harvard Crimson editor...
...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...
...universities began closing their doors in France, many students quickly grew nervous about jeopardizing their academic standing and took immediate steps to counteract this possibility, Arbuthnott said. “At first, it was very disconcerting,” Sonia Coman ’11 wrote in an e-mail. “But gradually I succeeded in establishing contact with my professors, who kindly helped me to find solutions for each course affected by the strikes,” Coman wrote. With more and more universities remaining closed for extended periods of time, Arbuthnott said he was forced...