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...fact, despite the stereotype, it has not been proven that fraternity members or athletes commit more sexual assaults. Instead, psychologists have found a correlation between peer support of ruse or coercion and violence against women. Think about it: If your friends talk about women in demeaning ways—as objects just to use—it is going to be hard to resist that attitude yourself. Therefore, while final clubs and athletic teams provide structured settings in which such heartless social conditioning can occur, it also happens at small social parties, in dorm rooms or clubs...
...Lord Perjury is fiction of a sort, but British author Jeffrey Archer won't be doing any book signings for perhaps his most creative piece of work. The shameless peer began a four-year prison sentence in July for forging a diary 14 years ago and concocting a story as unbelievable as one of his novels. To counter a prostitute's accusation of a sexual encounter and win a libel suit against a British tabloid, Archer had persuaded a friend to lie for him and had created a host of false journal entries to nullify the working girl's claims...
Scientists are nominated by their department heads and then the board sends all applications for medical peer review and receives back a ranking of the top 10 to 12 candidates...
Harvard Business School (HBS) Chief Financial Officer Donella M. Rapier said that while many of its peer schools have already taken across-the-board cost cutting measures, HBS hopes to avoid wide-ranging cuts. “We’re looking very closely at any discretionary spending and limiting that,” she said...
That’s where the prefect system comes in. The two or three upperclassmen who plan social events for each proctor group are, for some first-years, their only glimpse into life past the Yard. As Nathans puts it, “Peer advisers are important supports to first-year students in many respects. They can introduce them to some of the routines of undergraduate life; they can offer important wisdom about time management and about balancing extracurriculars and academic work; they can provide a sounding board for some of the concerns and doubts that first-year students experience...