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Most students take four classes a semester. These, of course, can vary in difficulty and effort required. Even the most apathetic students go to great lengths to find out which classes are interesting, which ones are insanely difficult, which ones are fun, which ones suck, which ones are guts and...
Last September, Walter Professor of Cell Biology Marc W. Kirschner, Professor Joseph B. Martin, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Provost Stephen E. Hyman helped circulate a mass petition signed by 15,000 scientists who agreed to publish their work only in journals that...
Because two of the most prestigious journals—Nature and Cell—do not grant free access, scientists who support the petition and the fledgling status of BioMed Central would have to forego a chance for major recognition.
Yeh said students did not approach Underwood to seek his support on the ethnic studies issue. Matt Damon, Class of 1992, signed a petition in support of ethnic studies when he came to Harvard to host the show in 2000.
An eerily similar movement is growing across universities today, from the University of Michigan to the University of California, Berkeley. A number of American Jewish organizations have joined the fray, some of which have urged the U.S. government to cut Israel’s foreign aid. San Francisco-based A...