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...Francisco Bay Area 10 years ago to settle on a 48-hectare mountain ranch, and his rage against the government seems to have grown in this region where more jobs than trees have been felled in recent years. "Three local lumber mills have been closed in the past year because of spotted owls," he claims. Compton also complains that he can't dig up the manzanita bushes on his own land because of local ordinances. "But," he adds cynically, "you sure better pay taxes on it, or they'll take it all away from...
That part of Compton's rant is familiar territory for those caught up in the modern Sagebrush Rebellion, a land-rights movement that is spreading rapidly in Western states. Over the past few years, offices of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service have come under increasing attack by ranchers, farmers and loggers fed up with federal rules about land use, water rights and endangered habitats. In Nevada, where more than 80% of the state is public land, federal employees have been refused service in restaurants, taunted at public gatherings and harassed with vulgar gestures. In March...
...effort to continue promoting the vibrancy of the community—one oft-cited goal of Harvard’s expansion in Allston—during the past year the University has orchestrated the opening of a free ice-skating rink in a former Volkswagen dealership and the disbursing of community development grants to organizations like the Fishing Academy, which sponsors fishing trips for Allston youths. Harvard has also recently leased empty office space from its large real estate holdings in the neighborhood to an environmental nonprofit...
Following the merger of the Core and General Education offices this past summer, Ruberto, who had held his post since 2005, took on some additional roles related to General Education...
...they train students to utilize a wide range of methods when engaging in intellectual inquiry. Even relatively “traditional” methods-based disciplines are not as pure and unified as they are frequently made out to be. Within a department like history, scholars can approach the past with an eye toward intellectual developments, cultural and social change, or economic and financial trends. Some of the criticism relating to the malleable nature of subjects like ethnic studies versus those like history is therefore unwarranted and inaccurate...