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...discipline—English, for example. Yet, we hardly ever hear about them; in fact, we rarely hear anything about masculine gender roles, though it appears that these are often even more rigid. Female doctors are now completely commonplace, but male nurses still warrant notice. Suggest that a woman ought to cook dinner because of some inherent ability, and you may end up eating a lonely meal of take-out, but what man would take offense at the assumption that he ought to be the one to mow the lawn and fix the plumbing...
...Rodgers may be many things--tough taskmaster, Green Bay Packers fan--but reticent he is not. And if anything gets the pugnacious founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor talking, it's the notion that corporations ought to exist for more than the pursuit of profit. In the simplest terms, that idea--called corporate social responsibility, or CSR--invites companies to consider their impact on people and the planet on a par with their traditional quest for profit. Rodgers considers that bunk. Not that he opposes conscientious corporate conduct or occasional acts of charity. He's quick to point out that...
...Congress wants to carve out an exemption from antidiscrimination policies and require the universities to give special preference to certain recruiters, it ought to have to say so in the law,” Dellinger, who is now a professor of law at Duke, said in a phone interview from Chapel Hill, N.C., yesterday...
...fact is that many of the issues that our campus politicians are running on—like improving undergraduate education, or the construction of a student center, or adequate student group office space—are things that the administration ought to be doing anyway, but doesn’t really need to do, because this is Harvard. The yield will always be high and the admissions rate will always be low, regardless of lousy sections, lousy social life, and a perceived lack of amenities. Why? Because of the iconic crimson H, enough U.S. presidents to field a baseball team...
...this election cycle; instead, we need an executive that is specifically prepared to tackle the issue of campus social life. We believe that Voith is best qualified to provide this kind of leadership, particularly in serving with current SAC chair Gadgil.The most important role that the UC President ought to play is in the council’s relationship with the College administration. All three tickets can claim experience in working with University Hall on a variety of initiatives over the last year; Haddock on the UC’s 24-hour library proposal, vice-presidential candidate Thomas D. Hadfield...