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Nine students were indicted on criminal charges March 29 for verbal and physical bullying that authorities say led to the January suicide of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old freshman at South Hadley High School. The case comes as the Massachusetts legislature finishes work on an antibullying law that would require school officials to investigate suspected incidents...
...know the old Depression-era signs, 'I'll work for food?,' " asks Philadelphia workplace attorney Robin Bond. "Well, now they say, 'I'll work for free.'" Bond says she has heard from a growing number of unemployed professionals looking to volunteer for corporations because they don't want gaps in their...
...have proved to be an iPhone killer. That could be problematic for Motorola in the long run, especially if Apple breaks its exclusive contract with AT&T. The Crowd Science survey found that iPhone users account for 1 in 3 smart-phone owners. Among non-iPhone users, nearly 40% say they would switch to an iPhone for their next purchase. "Much of Droid's success has resulted from Verizon pushing it as its lead product," says Jefferies & Co. analyst William Choi. "What happens when Verizon can sell the iPhone?" (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...When an elderly man asks us for change outside CVS or Uno’s, we pretend not to hear, or stare blankly into space while quickly moving on our way. However, becoming habituated to homelessness is not strong; it is callous. This is not to say that we are obligated to give money to the homeless on a daily basis, but we must not pretend as if they do not even exist or are somehow less than human. The social stigma against being anything less than blasé about Harvard Square homelessness must be addressed...
While Harvard may offer the financial aid for students to step foot in their dorms, Harvard does not offer that same support to students with mental disabilities. That is to say, Harvard does not support its students in the financial sense because Harvard requires its students to submit expensive and unreasonable evidence to “prove” their mental illness so the student can receive reasonable accommodations...