Word: methods
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...method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant,” Gandhi wrote. The story of India’s nonviolent fight for independence is well known. If nothing else, the popularity of the 1982 film Gandhi ensured that, setting both its eponymous hero and his partner, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become India’s first Prime Minister, firmly in the American consciousness...
Lotteries occur frequently for undergraduates at Harvard, where professors who wish to maintain the integrity of smaller, discussion-based lectures choose to limit enrollment through standard and fair procedures. Unlike his fellow colleagues, Wegner decided to create his own method, one that failed to give priority to seniors and concentrators, many of whom needed this foundation class for their concentration requirements...
When asked in an interview why he chose this method of selection, Wegner alluded to two sides to shopping period. While students actively engage in evaluating classes, teachers, syllabi, and so forth, so too do professors take the time to select students in order to create the best learning environment for their class. Certain criteria such as good attendance and punctuality are among the values professors seek to uphold in the classroom. “Shopping period goes both ways,” Wegner argued. “The students are shopping and so are professors?...
...structure of shopping period as the two main culprits in this conflict—his selection process was a necessary response to a very flawed administrative system that was not willing to help professors deal with enrollment constraints. In recognizing some of the downfalls to his own method, Wegner admitted, “It may not have been the most fair solution. But I thought it was the most reasonable method given that there was no administrative support for solving this problem with the current shopping system.” When it comes to capping small, yet popular, classes...
...dozen other states consider similar proposals, the competition between states for the companies conducting stem cell research is quickening. But even though Massachusetts has not yet considered opening its coffers to stem cell research, Gov. W. Mitt Romney announced Thursday that he will seek to ban a crucial method of stem cell research in Massachusetts. We implore the Massachusetts state legislature to defeat Romney’s proposal so that embryonic stem cell research can continue unhindered in Massachusetts...