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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this fall, the change will create a “school within a school,” which would remain part of FAS. Undergraduates would retain their affiliation with Harvard College. Indeed, the change’s ramifications appear to be minor, yet positive??except for the promised faculty-hiring spree (which is arguably long overdue anyway), the biggest change seems to be cosmetic. A school is a whole lot easier to sell than a division. Harvard seems to be taking the bait.Nonetheless, new money and fresh blood will doubtless improve Harvard?...
...donate blood 12 months after his last such incident, whereas a well-educated, HIV-negative homosexual who practices safe sex monogamously cannot. Critics of opening donor pools to gay men often cite the fact that only five percent of American males are gay, of which 15 percent are HIV-positive??and that only five percent of the gay population would likely donate blood. Hence, they argue, allowing gay men to donate blood translates to a minimal expansion of the donor pool at the risk of greatly increasing the number of potential donors infected with HIV. Nevertheless, with...
...says the office was able to proceed with fundraising quickly by reaching out to specific donors who had expressed interest in supporting an athletics-based project. “We knew exactly who to go to,” Abell says. “The response was so overwhelmingly positive??that’s partly why it happened so fast,” he adds.A group of fewer than two dozen alumni donated funds for the project, according to Abell. There is no donor name currently attached to the new facilities, although Abell says they...
...workers at the University to 60 percent. Snegroff noted that the janitors on the bargaining committee were disappointed that the University had not agreed to provide higher wages for workers who do heavy lifting. But she reiterated that the reaction to the new terms was “very positive?? on the whole. The contract will expire...
...even considering it,” said Gorrick. “After talking to her I was like ‘Wow, it’s possible to go to Harvard.’”Gorrick applied early decision and is “absolutely positive?? he made the right choice.Of the universities surveyed by the journal, Harvard came in sixth in terms of black students as a percentage of the student body. Harvard’s overall yield was 78.5 percent for 2005, almost 10 percentage points higher than the figure for black students...