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...Asbos are controversial control orders introduced by the Blair government in 1999 in an effort to clear Britain's town centers of petty criminals, often called "hoodies" or "yobs." They usually ban offenders from frequenting certain places or carrying out particular activities, but this is believed to be the first one that restricts Internet activity...
...very appealing to me to be involved and engaged with a particular subject at a very high level and become an expert at it,” Chen says...
...this specific brand of advocacy. Yet those that were the targets of student activism are now supposed to study and stoke it. This is not only ironic but impractical—a University’s job is to educate and cultivate students, not force them along a particular path with that education. If administrators really want to serve students and engage them politically, they would do best to focus on improving Harvard’s lagging academics and the student experience instead of trying to get students to protest...
...calls for a national boycott. Widely considered to be the antithesis to the über-Christian C.S. Lewis’s tales of Narnia, Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy is filled with veiled denunciations of religion (and Catholicism in particular). In the books, the very epitome of evil is the Magisterium, an organization that mirrors the Catholic Church in its hierarchy and dogmatism...
...should—be expected to know everything about every course and every concentration. It is with this in mind that first-year advising provides students with multiple points of entry to advice. In fact, we always recommend that advisers and students consult with specialists in particular fields for concentration-specific guidance. In addition, with new events like the Advising Fair in September and the Advising Fortnight in the spring, first-year advising provides the “readily available advising resources” that you rightly praise in the sophomore advising system...