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Although it could not seem more unlikely today, Harvard and MIT were once very nearly a single school. Claiming that it was unreasonable for two highly similar institutions, MIT and Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School, to exist in such a small area, then-University President Charles W. Eliot and MIT President Henry S. Pritchett undertook a highly controversial campaign from 1904 to 1905 to integrate...
...Beyond alienating Harvard’s largest undergraduate concentration from its professors and teaching fellows, postponing renovation of the building is driving promising graduate students down the river to rival MIT, professors...
...pretty tough year of recruiting,” said Professor of Economics Susan C. Athey, who co-chaired graduate recruitment. “We did lose a number of students that we were very interested in getting. The selling point that MIT gave is that it is a very interactive environment...
...causal, but sometimes correlative. Put simply, the evidence accumulated from this study could only conclusively argue that “aggressive” people enjoy “aggressive” entertainment. Hardly a profound statement condemning the gaming industry. Henry Jenkins, the Director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, even concluded that no research has found that a violent video game “could turn an otherwise normal person into a killer.” (And with all those copies of “Halo 3” sold—thank goodness!) Jenkins has also raised...
...broader exposure to Palestinian art and identity through film screenings—according to the organizers, the material is carefully picked in order to fit a mainstream audience. However, nearly anything to do with Palestine has the potential to quickly become controversial.CHOMSKY WEIGHS INNoam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT and a longtime commentator on the Middle East, writes in an e-mail, “Among dedicated anti-Semites, or passionate supporters of the destruction of Israel, an Israeli film festival would no doubt be interpreted as ‘being political.’ By the same token...