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...hallowed halls this past weekend, however: the neutrality of the article about Harvard was disputed. We aren’t by any means the first or the only article to be given this distinction. The ability to question the even-handedness of Wikipedia content is an important peer review mechanism built into the site as a check against would be ne’er-do-wells. But most of the disputed articles are about well-known hot topics: Creationism or the Palestinian National Liberation Movement or whatever. Harvard, one would think, might generate a lot of controversy, but what about...
Good journalists are generally well-paid, have stimulating jobs, and don't need the lure of prizes to motivate them to excel. But peer recognition in this highly competitive game is always welcome - and should be celebrated. Last week, this magazine's Editor at Large, Tom Dusevic, was honored at the Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prizes. He won the all-media Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique category for three pieces in the areas of politics, economics and diplomacy, including a major story on former Labor leader Mark Latham in the run-up to last year's federal...
...audiences. Plus, the girl can tell a good story.”In addition to Best Buddies, Riley is also the development chair of CityStep and a prefect in Canaday A. She served on the UC for two years and last year worked on position papers to improve peer advising and inter-house transfers.“You can basically approach her about anything, which is exactly what a prefect should be like,” says Randall S. Sarafa ’09, who lives in Canaday A and is secretary-treasurer of the UC’s Finance...
...Peer counseling groups will also be exempt from the eviction, the vice-president of operations for the Harvard International Relations Council, Todd Van Stolk-Riley ’06 said...
What ultimately stopped me from acting out my peer-to-peer fantasies was not the illegality of what I was proposing to do. Even if I had realized that downloading was tantamount to digital piracy, it probably wouldn’t have made a difference—being a pirate ranked prominently among my list of career aspirations well into my freshman year of college...