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Playing off the now famous “case study” method that the school pioneered, the campaign, called “The Case For Harvard Business School,” seeks to strengthen the school’s programs in financial aid, classroom learning, residential environment and faculty research and support...
Among the proposals is a $25 million teaching and learning center that would be modeled on Harvard’s Bok Center and would serve to study how learning occurs in the case study method...
...While a no keg policy is certainly not going to stop all drinking, it will slow down the amount of alcohol consumed.” Dr. Hank, I beg to differ. It doesn’t take a social psychologist to know that banning one method of alcohol consumption does not prevent students from turning to other sources for their buzz. Harvard students are, if nothing else, resourceful when it comes to procuring alcohol. More importantly, anyone who has attended a tailgate knows that alcohol consumption flows at a steady rate, and banning kegs only changes the receptacle in which...
...This method is widely embraced (and cheaper) in Britain, where some 150 burial grounds offer plain wood coffins, cardboard boxes or a "lovely woollen shroud" in which to bury loved ones in a nature reserve. The U.S. has been slow to follow, but Memorial Ecosystems in South Carolina has buried 18 people on its 33-acre site since 1998 and has presold about 100 plots. Endangered wildflowers will be planted on the graves this fall...
...Yale so far has only committed to challenging the military through administrative channels with the defense department, a method Harvard tried without success before announcing on Aug. 23 it would allow the military an official place on campus...