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Experts say the move will acknowledge Harvard's decades-long drift away from an interdisciplinary approach to several social sciences and toward what one department member calls a "quasi-biological" view of psychology. According to experts, the Harvard department's name change could increase other universities' emphasis on the "hard science" aspects of psychology and might fuel the trend of psychologists who emphasize the "social" in social science to look for non-traditional academic arrangements...
...Patriots nearly joined the Holy Trinity of Boston sports teams this season. Newly-converted fans worshipped the Pats with a quasi-religious devotion normally reserved for the other teams in town. Thousands made a holy pilgrimage to the Super Bowl shrine...
...department very much wants [the club] to succeed," and is giving it funds, Alexandrov said. But he said the department does not want to "channel" the group's activities by supplying more than advice and financial support. "We don't want to make this a quasi-extension of coursework," he said...
...fact remains than in at least two instances this term a College-supported peer advising program has turned into a quasi-dating service. Discussing the incidents with participants has revealed the proper area for concern: the College, many prefects agree, hasn't shown a very profound understanding of what kind of training is needed to turn peers into peer advisers...
What is to be done? Refusing to eat Whoppers or to skip that headache-filled stroll through Downtown Crossing simply translates into moral purism. Such acts might also lead the quasi-veggie to join a commune tucked away in a Vermont forest or isolated on a northern California sea-cliff. But a seclusion without frozen Swanson's brownies or the pulpy grease of Quarter Pounders also loses out on the potentially progressive parts of an often despicable society...