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...While reducing staffing in the advising office, it would also be wise to cancel Rinere’s brainchild, the wasteful Peer Advising Fellows program. The PAF program enrolls about 190 upperclassmen and pays them $1,000 per year. By contrast, the old prefect program, which accomplished the same goals, cost the College virtually nothing. With Rinere leaving, there is no reason not to go back to the day when the only thing that upperclass mentors earned was the right to eat in Annenberg...
...able to match. Rinere joined Harvard in February 2006 as head of the College’s newly-created Advising Programs Office. Under Rinere’s leadership as the first associate dean of advising programs, the office revamped the College’s advising system and created the Peer Advising Fellows program, Advising Fortnight, the sophomore advising program, and the online advising network portal. “I think she’s been an amazing force in bringing the many advising resources that we had at the College together to provide much improved advising to our students...
...telescopes are expected to peer deeper into space and time than any telescope has done before. Their launch comes three days after NASA's space shuttle launch to repair the Hubble telescope, which, since its launch in 1990, has been regarded as the most important instrument in the study of the cosmos. However, the ESA says that Herschel and Planck will explore the science of space in a way that Hubble never could...
...particular published material is being copied and what effect the copying might have on the material’s value. Teachers re-producing a few paragraphs of a book for use in the classroom qualifies as “fair use.” Participation in a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, where songs are made available for download by thousands of people, traditionally does not. And, according to Nesson’s colleagues, it was nearly unthinkable that such a precedent would be changed. “I’m worried by your statement that...
...movement was not conceived in a vacuum, coming amidst a hail of lost profits—14 percent in the space of four years—that the industry said coincided with an uptick in the purchase of blank CDs and the use of peer-to-peer sharing networks...