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...governing board, and three members of the less influential Board of Overseers. But Sidney Verba ’53, who chairs the 13-member faculty advisory group, said that search committee members have been talking frequently and seriously with his group and given it an “authentic role?? in the process. “I’m hoping that the involvement in our committee and the fact that it has a voice winds up legitimizing what the Corporation is doing,” said Verba, the outgoing director of the University Library. He added that...
...resulting in a missed or delayed diagnosis. In many missed diagnoses, two or more physicians contributed to the mistake. Co-author of the report and an Associate Professor of Law and Public Health at HSPH professor, David M. Studdert said that “cognitive errors play a large role?? in these types of medical errors. The study also recommended ways to improve the diagnostic process, suggesting that systems reducing reliance on doctor’s memory, such as electronic test result tracking systems, be implemented. Studdert also said that, in certain situations, physicians should consider consulting...
...every time a woman’s accomplishment is used as an example of some broader breaking of barriers, it implicitly circumscribes her achievement within the confines of gender. She is important as a woman before she is important as an individual. The idea of a “role?? is strange in that way—it literally means representing something else beyond oneself. And so appropriating actions by individuals as exemplars of some broader change in women’s roles can take away from the personal agency and uniqueness of those women.When I graduate tomorrow...
...input when they return to campus in the fall, according to the group’s chair, Matthew J. Murray, a joint-degree student at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School.Verba says he expects his own group will play a “very active role?? in the search process as the search committee narrows its list of potential candidates.“We in no way think of ourselves as having a different agenda from the search committee, the agenda being to find the best person for what is a very important job right...
...released earlier this month. And it is this example that makes us skeptical that a student government reconstituted along the lines suggested by the committee will ever succeed. The most striking similarity between the assembly and the Dowling proposal is that again students are placed in merely an advisory role??all their efforts can be ignored or vetoed by the Faculty and the administration. If students will remain powerless in the new system—and if, as is likely, it will defuse student energy and give the administration symbolic justification for its most objectionable acts?...