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...given Monday morning, kiosks around campus are bombarded with brightly colored posters: the English department extends a cordial invitation to a parlor discussion on close reading, or the math department sponsors a seminar on number theory. For the naive student, unaware of which department offers a strong advising system or which one caters to the needs of its junior faculty, differentiating among the undergraduate giants like government or history and the often-forgotten departments like folk and myth or Classics can be daunting. And a student’s individual needs only complicate the matter; would a hands-off, self...
Similarly, the math department, where, chair Benedict Gross says, self-grouping into “cliques” would be easy, fosters much interaction among the resident mathematical scholars. Due to the especially small size of the department, many faculty members are forced to work side-by-side, on joint papers and joint seminars...
...holes. For the past two years, Rawshan's eldest daughter Wahida, 10, has been going to a secret school in an abandoned building. She has only one hour of lessons a day, given by local women who volunteer their services, but she is slowly picking up the rudiments of math and learning how to read. "I would like my daughter to work outside the home," says Rawshan. "I stayed in the home, and I have had a terrible life...
...efforts center on replacing the SAT with a new test that better reflects what is being taught in California high schools, stressing that students must learn the material rather than how to score highly on an unrelated math and verbal exam...
Some quick math yields the startling statistic that a Harvard player was in the penalty box for a third of the game against Colgate...