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...Dowling II,” will be chaired by neuroscience professor John E. Dowling ’57, who chaired the Committee to Review College Governance that founded the UC in 1982.Dowling spoke at the UC’s Feb. 18 meeting, where he urged the Council not to seek to appoint students to the committee.“The review has to be at arm’s length from the Council itself,” Dowling said, citing concerns that it would look to students “like it’s an inside...
...cyberlaw expert, who has been at Stanford since 2000, had been encouraged to run for office by Harvard cyberlaw professor John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94. Palfrey was the leader of a Web-based “Draft Lessig” movement to encourage his friend to seek office. In a video posted on his Web site yesterday evening, Lessig said that his chances for defeating Democratic opponent Jackie Speier, a state senator and 30-year veteran of local politics, would be thinner than a computer chip. “It is not possible...
...million face-lift. Of course, Harvard could afford a similar program given that its endowment is 50% larger than Yale’s, but doing so would remove the valuable life lesson Harvard is trying to teach it’s undergraduates: Large corporations that only seek to further their net value often overlook the status of life of those in their charge. Besides, the easy life is detrimental to the students—as witnessed by a typical Yalie who is weak and soft due to luxurious living. Compare this to a Harvard student, hardened by Darwinistic survival...
...Presidents Climate Committment commits the universities to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. In fact, the 2050 date is only a guideline. Additionally, the story reported that the Commonwealth will "fast track" regulatory approval as part of its deal with Harvard. In fact, the deal only allows the University to seek approval for each of its projects individually instead of having to receive approval for the entire campus...
...alone independent - Kurdistan, which they fear would incite secessionist feelings among Turkey's own Kurdish minority. At the same time, Iraq's Kurdish leaders have been unwilling to move against the PKK, having tried and failed to defeat them during the 1990s. Instead, they have urged Turkey to seek a political solution to the conflict through peace talks and amnesty. And they're readying their own peshmerga militias to resist Turkey's incursion if they deem that their own people and territory are under attack...