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...evaluation process in order to further increase its efficacy. Recently, the College has made several improvements to the evaluations, such as moving to online forms in the spring of 2005 and adding some course-specific questions this fall. In addition, the current one-to-five numeric scale should be expanded to a seven-point system, since students’ hesitancy to grade below a “3” effectively shortens the scale to three points...
...initiative came into existence after a number of organizations, including The American Friends Service Committee, Military Families Speak Out, and Veterans for Peace, met last January to coordinate their local efforts against the war on a state-wide scale...
...Crimson reported earlier this month on several large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art on campus including “Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art” at the Fogg Museum which ended Oct. 15 and “German Art of the 1980s from the Heliod Spiekermann Collection,” at the Busch-Reisinger Museum which runs through...
...That may sound impressive, but the question remains, can individuals really make a difference by reducing their carbon imprint? "It's important for individuals to recognize the scale of the problem and that while their contributions are important, they are not going to be significant unless in addition to taking personal action, they encourage government policy that ensures emission reductions are made on a scale and pace that is needed to avoid the dangerous consequences of global warming," explains Daniel Lashof, the science director of the Natural Resources Defense Council climate center...
Waddah soon found himself the longest-held captive in the basement, and the guards grew friendly. They helped him get a sense of the scale of the kidnapping operation. By his reckoning, at least 30 captives passed through the cells during his five-week stay. The guards hinted that at least two captives had been government employees. Instead of being ransomed, they were sold to a jihadist group. And the jihadis took a cut from the ransom collections in exchange for protection. The U.S. official says that is common practice among kidnappers: "We know that the kidnapping industry helps finance...