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...formation and strengthening of groups like the Seneca and the Women's Leadership Conference, Harvard has made strides in the opening of channels for communication between the female community. Peggy T. Lim '01, the chair of the Women's Leadership Project, acknowledges an old boys network that continues to persist in the Harvard community and the implicit pressure placed on Harvard women to exude sophistication. With the creation of a new "Women's Guide to Harvard" due next fall, and a Lilith Fair equivalent on campus in the spring, Lim hopes to make new strives in female empowerment on campus...
Bill Cavellini, a housing organizer for the Cambridge Eviction-Free Zone, a tenant advocacy group, agrees, and says that this is a structural problem that will persist...
...only thing to be worried about. Fully 25% of youngsters involved in car accidents--even minor ones--develop post-traumatic stress disorder, a problem usually associated with soldiers at war. What are the signs? Recurring nightmares, trouble concentrating, even difficulty carrying on normal life activities. If symptoms persist for more than a month, seek professional help...
...campus music scene is a beast of a strangely ephemeral nature. Though the groups themselves persist, the turnover of undergrads combines with the emphasis on performance to create an environment where the music made more than a scant few years ago is mostly forgotten. There is, however, one group devoted to the purpose of preserving music. Deep in the Pforzheimer House basement, tucked between practice rooms and HRTV studios, is one of the Harvard music scene's least known entities: Quad Sound Studios. QSS, or simply "the studio," as members refer to it, is ironically one of the youngest musical...
Charades can't persist forever. In the years to come, as conventional medicine continues to make rapid advances and as the public becomes better informed about the deception and outright medical ignorance of many of these hucksters, alternative medicine will be consigned to what indeed is its rightful place: alongside snake oil, orgone booths and laetrile in the dustbin of medical history...