Word: majors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does a student create a senior art project that takes less than 12 hours to gain international attention? Ask Yale art major Aliza Shvarts, whose press release of her project was picked up by the Washington Post and London’s Daily Telegraph Thursday evening shortly after its publication in the Yale Daily News that morning. According to the artist’s statement, Shvarts used a needle-less syringe to artificially inseminate herself, and then took abortifacient drugs to induce bleeding. She said she repeated this over the course of nine months, documenting the process by video...
...attitude of the kids,” Walsh said. “They’re handling these one-run loses and playing with a lot of enthusiasm the next day. I give [Matt] Vance a lot of credit for keeping things together.”A major reason for the Crimson’s struggles early in the season was a lack offensive production. Harvard scored an average of just 1.89 runs per contest in the first nine Ivy league games and the Crimson remains last in the Ivies with a .235 team batting average.The bats have come alive...
...them,” said Sarah A. Rankin, director of the OSAPR. Referring to frequently-used statistics on sexual abuse, she added, “It gives a sort of personal connection to an abstract concept.” Organizers said one of the event’s major objectives was to address the issue of sexual violence on Harvard’s campus. “Even in a community like Harvard, there are survivors of rape, sexual assault, and relationship abuse,” said John M. Sheffield II ’09. Fellow organizer W. Patrice...
Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires awoke under an acrid cloud as an ecological disaster of major proportions covered the city. Thick smoke from out-of-control grass fires raging in the large islands of the Parana River Delta some 30 minutes north of the city rolled over urban areas, resulting in the closing of airports, ports and bus terminals. Meanwhile, the authorities were forced to block highway motor traffic following a number of fatal acciddents on smoke-choked national roads. The air has been unbreathable; asthmatics were suffering, as were infants...
...government of President Cristina Fernandez blamed farmers for the increasingly unbreathable air. It continues to be on the political offensive against the private agricultural sector following a major farm strike against export taxes earlier this month. "This is the largest fire of this kind we've ever seen," said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo in an emergency press conference at the Casa Rosada presidential palace. "It was started by farmers clearing land for cattle grazing driven by greed for profit with total disregard for human life." The President was just as harsh. "This is not a natural disaster, this...