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...paid for by a separate student fee, and Dartmouth, where it is funded by the student government, according to Erin Maghran, USA Today’s manager for higher education programs. Past attempts at bringing newspapers to campus have fizzled due to lack of permanent funding. A fall 2007 pilot program that offered the New York Times in dining halls with support form the UC, House Committees, and Harvard University Dining Services, ended due to a dearth of funding. An earlier trial period failed to muster enough UC support for permanent financing when legislation was introduced in March...
...country's Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, a state-funded historical archive and research body. The magazine and the historical institute published a contemporary police document that names Kundera as the man who had informed police about the whereabouts of Miroslav Dvoracek, a former military pilot who had fled to what was then West Germany in 1949. Dvoracek signed up with a Western intelligence agency and returned undercover in 1950. Kundera, who had not spoken to the press for decades, broke that silence this week to deny the allegation, insisting he never even knew the spy, and that...
...same anxiety powers CBS's new science-driven cop show Eleventh Hour, in which a government biophysicist (Rufus Sewell) investigates cases of bioscience run amok. In the pilot, a wealthy man coerces a needy woman to risk her life by bearing a clone of his dead son. On FX, buddy comedy Testees, about down-and-out dudes who sell their bodies for experiments, plays the same discomfort for gross-out laughs. (One gets a treatment that apparently leaves him pregnant--and lactating...
...every institution in this country—and you can begin here.” The discussion also addressed Yale’s Sustainable Food Project and the steps Harvard is taking in a similar direction. Joshua L. Viertel ’01 was instrumental in creating the pilot program in one of Yale’s dining halls in 2003, and it has grown into a campus-wide initiative in which 40 percent of food options in each dining hall at Yale are sustainable. Martin Breslin, the director for culinary operations at Harvard University Dining Services, wrapped...
...part of an initiative aimed to provide students with more outlets to mental health services, the mental health division of University Health Services has launched a pilot program Monday evening in four of the upperclassman houses. The program features drop-in hours with a Mental Health Services staff member, during which students can confidentially and informally talk about their mental health concerns and questions. From depression to homesickness to financial woes, no issues are off-limits according to MHS Director Paul K. Barreira. He led the initiative after finding that similar programs had been successful at Columbia University and Cornell...