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Patrick B. Senatus '89, a committee member andan M.D./Ph.D. student, said "I'm really impressedand proud that Harvard has come out and adoptedthis....It will really set a precedent for medicaleducation...
...years ago, Senatus, with the backing ofminority campus organizations, presented an85-signature student petition to the Councilexpressing student dissatisfaction with theschool's affirmative action report...
...diversity that we see at the student levelin time can be translated into diversity at thefaculty level," said Senatus, co-chair of the newHarvard Medical Students United for FacultyDiversity, an umbrella organization comprised ofvarious minority, women, religious and homosexualrights groups...
More blight than bright, the new acronyms are a kind of regression. They do not really enrich the language because they are words already. Still, they cap a fine old tradition that probably began with the Romans' SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee...
...challenge of the athletic, tweedy, young Oxford-trained dons of Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal universities has only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey, dean of Fuad el Awal and leading man in Arab letters, dared to teach Shaw's Saint Joan, he was assailed by Al Azhar's Senatus. (In the play, a character denounces Mohamed and his "dupes.") Rioting Al Azharites forced Taha Hussein to resign, the fuss broke...