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...Students will start their third case for the semester??the one on sex trafficking—next week, having already finished the ones on childhood obesity and fish consumption...
Students looking to comment on the crispiness of their popcorn chicken or the availability of cracklin’ oat bran in their dining hall on the recent biannual Harvard University Dining Services survey found themselves disappointed, after HUDS changed the format of the questionnaire from past years. On this semester??s dining satisfaction Survey, HUDS focused primarily on sustainability, with 11 out of 25 survey questions relating directly to this issue. They also eliminated the section for open-ended response,s instead using a multiple choice format. In the past, HUDS’ survey provided a forum...
...Harvard undergraduates will receive new e-mail addresses “early next semester?? as the College attempts to phase out its @fas.harvard.edu endings and current webmail interface, according to an e-mail obtained by The Crimson. The changes come as a response to what Client Technology Adviser Noah S. Selsby ’94, the author of the e-mail, called the College’s “outcry for a new e-mail system.” The message, sent to several students in campus leadership positions, states that the new system will be armed...
...semester??s grades may not be out just yet, but for our nation’s public schools, report cards are looking somewhat dismal. This year, according to newly released state-by-state data, the number of schools failing to reach testing targets under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was far greater than in any other year. Indeed, children are getting left behind, but not because they’re slow. It’s because the NCLB school bus is trying to go 70 miles per hour in the suburbs. The original NCLB legislation had the lofty...
...span the sciences and computer science,” Reid said. Asked about how the colloquium came about, Reid said that it stemmed from discussions between IIC Director and Applied Physics and Physics professor Efthimios Kaxiras and SEAS Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering J. Gregory Morrisett. This semester??s speakers include Alfred A. Rizzi, the lead robotics scientist at Boston Dynamics, and Jennifer T. Chayes, the managing director of the new Microsoft Research New England laboratory in Cambridge. The first seminar on Oct. 8 will be led by Rizzi, who has worked extensively on the control...