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...first year in which 18-year-olds could vote. This finding contradicted early reports after the election that turnout among this age group was much lower than expected. Caitlin W. Monahan ’06, co-chair of the group that conducted the survey, noted at the panel that more than one-third of this age group’s ballots were cast absentee, and were therefore not included in exit polls. Speakers said they had found that college students’ opinions and degree of political involvement are generally similar to those of their parents, and that students...
...prominent women astronomers discussed the obstacles they faced along their career path and how they overcame them in a panel sponsored yesterday by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Superiors often discouraged these women from careers in science, according to the panel members. Sidney C. Wolff, the first female director of a prominent U.S. observatory, was once told that aggressiveness, a necessity for being successful in the sciences, was unattractive in women. When future NASA researcher Nancy Grace Roman asked a high school teacher if she could take an additional year of mathematics, the reaction was, “What...
...HRCF President Kristen Heyburn ’06 said the meetings also give religious groups the opportunity to discuss common obstacles, such as a lack of space. “A lot of groups have similar needs,” she said. In December, HIC will host a panel discussion on Abrahamic and Eastern religions. In February, the group will hold an event that explores the use of art in worship and spirituality...
...graduate from high school—likely worked as an advantage with a population that prizes education, said Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Robert Rotberg, who was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Panel on Africa from...
...initiatives he pushed were all resoundingly defeated. The measures would have increased from two to five the number of years it takes schoolteachers to qualify for tenure, required public-sector unions to get permission from members before using their dues for political campaigns, turned congressional redistricting over to a panel of retired judges rather than legislators, and created a new mechanism to cap government spending. Their rejection was a stinging referendum on Schwarzenegger, whose approval ratings have dropped from 61% a year ago to 33%, with just over a year before he runs for re-election. "If I would...