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There are lots of easy answers: fashion, peer pressure, vanity. There are less obvious ones too. To narrow the height difference between men and women, perhaps? Or because, as evolutionary psychologist Martin Tovee of Britain's Newcastle University surmises, girls' legs grow only during childhood, so long legs communicate a healthy youth and good breeding potential...
...Sexual Health Report Card, released yesterday. The survey was sponsored by the makers of Trojan condoms and conducted by Sperling’s BestPlaces, an independent research firm. The report card graded and ranked 139 colleges based on 13 criteria, including sexual assault programs, availability of contraceptives, and student peer groups. Harvard’s ranking fell from 10th place last year to 25th. Trojan and Sperling’s BestPlaces did not release a breakdown of the College’s score. “Our philosophy hasn’t changed much in the past two years...
Harvard Law School will be moving to a pass-fail grading system in the fall of 2009, joining peer institutions such as Yale and Stanford, Dean Elena Kagan announced in an e-mail to students this afternoon...
Other researchers are exploring how the adolescent propensity for uninhibited risk taking propels teens to experiment with drugs and alcohol. Traditionally, psychologists have attributed this experimentation to peer pressure, teenagers' attraction to novelty and their roaring interest in loosening sexual inhibitions. But researchers have raised the possibility that rapid changes in dopamine-rich areas of the brain may be an additional factor in making teens vulnerable to the stimulating and addictive effects of drugs and alcohol. Dopamine, the brain chemical involved in motivation and in reinforcing behavior, is particularly abundant and active in the teen years...
...official, Ruff said. “Now it’s clearer and much more widely known that when students have children, they deserve extension of their G-clock,” Ruff said. The Joint Student Committee, however, will continue to brainstorm and learn from peer institutions to create a coherent parental accommodation policy. “We have to advocate,” Brown said. “Part of the goal of working with our deans is to put together a plan that’s going to be effective and can be implemented...