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...last week's conference, there were tantalizing hints that the DSM-V might fix some of these problems. Dr. Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard, a former psychiatry professor at its medical school and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, agitated at the meeting for a new DSM framework that would stop trying to divide mental problems into discrete all-or-nothing categories. That method is appropriate for some medical problems - you either have leukemia or you don't - but depression, for instance, doesn't work like that. (Read "Why Do the Mentally Ill Die Younger...
...According to Miron, there are not enough faculty members available to teach classes such as accounting. Even if there were, says Miron, it is unlikely that any Harvard professor would want to teach the class because it would not be seen as valuable within the liberal arts philosophy of education, especially given the relative ease with which factual business information can be learned. “You can spend an afternoon reading ‘Accounting for Dummies’ and learn the accounting if you’ve first taken Ec 10 and 1010 from...
...Dean Michael D. Smith said in his first piece of news regarding the ongoing financial crisis. Future Faculty meetings will continue to provide some printed materials, such as the agenda, but others—such as documents related to docket items—will be available online before professors gather in University Hall. These printed documents may soon become relics of a long-gone era. The prepared packet of information was “apparently your last chance to get it on hard copy,” Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor Douglas A. Melton soberly told the Faculty when...
...presentation at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor Douglas A. Melton emphasized that HDRB will not be a vocational concentration designed for pre-med students...
...rare these days to hear Coleman's attorneys claim the ruling violated the equal-protections clause of the U.S. Constitution. "The court has given him very narrow opportunity for establishing proof or establishing evidence as to what ballots are going be counted," notes David Schultz, a professor at Hamline University and the University of Minnesota who is an expert in election law. "It still leaves the court with what looks like an inconsistency. But that may be an issue for an appeal." If the loser appeals to Minnesota's Supreme Court, Schultz adds, the state may have only one Senator...