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...general education” courses laid out by the Task Force with a second tier made up of a broad variety of departmental classes that will count for general education credit. Such a system would provide top-notch and applicable courses that would serve as a portal to disciplines a student is unfamiliar with but would also allow students who want to explore an area in depth to do so without excessive handholding or demeaning and overly simplified requirements.While we generally applaud the Task Force’s adherence to a consistent underlying philosophy, the report’s undying...
...troop of Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives marched into the Coop on a mission. Skipping through the aisles, the small army not-so-inconspicuously jotted down ISBN numbers of books for sale. Their hope was to collect these numbers for Crimsonreading.com, their own Web site that acts as a portal for online booksellers, which often sell textbooks (the same as the Coop’s) at much lower prices. The site does make a commission, though it donates its proceeds to charity. Coop employees would have none of this, and they promptly expelled the UC members from the store, telling...
...easy forYahoo!, the Internet's most durable portal, to play Pepsi to Google's Coke. But if Yahoo! continues to fall further behind Google in ad sales, the company may find itself stuck a perennial second--or worse. With its stock down 36% last year and ad sales failing to keep up with Google's, Yahoo!'s reputation has suffered as Google's stock has soared...
Despite its recent stock stumbles, the portal remains a diversified giant. Its sites draw more users than AOL's or Microsoft's. Among 18-to-34-year-olds, Myspace and YouTube had a combined 32 million unique visitors in December; Yahoo! had 39 million. And Yahoo!'s e-mail remains tops with 250 million users worldwide. The company is either first or second in 17 Web categories, from e-mail to photos. It also landed a deal with eBay to sell ads on the company's domestic site and engineered a partnership to sell ad space for 215 newspapers...
While checking final grades may be stressful enough, Harvard Law School students were forced to endure additional hours of anxiety due a system error with the Law School’s grade viewing portal. As hundreds of law students logged on last week to check their grade reports, they had to wait several hours before accessing their final marks, resulting in “inevitable frustration,” according to an e-mail released by the Law School registrar’s office. MyGrades, the Law School’s online grade viewing system, uses a waiting list...