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Equal Exchange has helped create a new paradigm in an industry with a reputation for keeping suppliers poor. "The coffee industry for several hundred years has been viewed as a competition between producers and consumers," says Ted Lingle, executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. "Where the specialty market is changing is in getting everyone in the supply chain to recognize that there's a partnership [which entails] some sort of shared prosperity...
President Lowell’s vision was neither destined to fail nor succeed; instead, it was relevant at a particular moment in time. It is time to reevaluate that plan: to take what works, to leave what doesn’t, and to create from scratch a new social paradigm at Harvard. It is time to stop complaining, and to take action. We must bring ourselves together. Community is at hand, it is all around us, and it is up to us to grab it and make it real...
...They see the reasonableness of the regulations.” According to Patten, the relative lack of rowdiness over the weekend represented a success in Yale’s efforts to change the atmosphere surrounding The Game. “The University is trying to achieve a paradigm shift here,” he said. “We’re not trying to be heavy handed. We’re trying to enhance the safety of the day for everyone.” —Staff writer Matthew S. Lebowitz can be reached at mslebow@fas.harvard.edu...
...hopes the scholarship program will influence public views of education. In previous decades, Michiganders and migrants to the state assumed good auto industry jobs would be available to those without a college degree. “The question for us is how to change people’s paradigm,” Granholm said. “What was good for the parents is not good for the child.” Rahul Prabhakar ’09 said he agreed that education reform is essential in easing the transition to a more technological economy. “[Granholm?...
...many faculty members will likely object to a general education structure that doesn’t explicitly require math, or life sciences, or moral reasoning, or foreign cultures. But the answer is simple. If professors teach their courses well, students will come. We look forward to a new paradigm of general education, one where students are empowered with options and individual faculty are empowered with the responsibility to engage students in interesting, worthwhile courses...