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Authored by Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond and Mather House Senior Tutor Steven A. Epstein, the study once again showed that students gravitate to Houses that conform to perceived stereotypes, causing, for instance, wide disparities in academic performance in the Houses...
Former Hampden County Registrar of Deeds John Pierce Lynch, considered a long shot for the nomination, offered the most iconoclastic positions, calling for a summit meeting of world leaders in Boston, a four-day work week, and for the lobbying organization Common Cause to oversee all campaign contributions of more than...
...define a diploma mill. In California, for instance, anyone can set up an "authorized" degree program by providing a list of faculty members and courses and $50,000 in assets (a home qualifies). Southland University in Pasadena, for example, meets all the state requirements. Yet last year the former registrar told the FBI that one student received a B.A. in engineering after submitting a short résumé, and a real estate agent got a juris doctorate by taking a legal assistant's examination. Southland Founder James Kirk, who says he no longer runs the 700-student institution...
...study that reveals wide disparities in academic performance among residents of the College's 13 Houses. While the study does provide food for thought, students and administrators should think twice before drawing broad conclusions from the report, authored by Stephen A. Epstein, senior tutor of Mather House, and Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond...
...Mather House Senior Tutor Stephen A. Epstein, who co-authored the study with Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond, said yesterday that he was surprised and dismayed at the University's reception of the report. "We had no idea that the mere existence of such a report would be controversial," he said...