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During the question-and-answer session of yesterday’s town hall meeting, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith hosted a series of questions from concerned staff workers, perplexed professors, and student activists. Faced with a $220 million deficit over the next two years, every member of the assembly had some reason to worry. “Each of us represents his or her own segment of a huge, complex organization,” said Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library. “And the questions naturally take the form...
...During the question-and-answer session, a few professors expressed frustration that the entire school has had to cut back in part due to a spending spree in recent years that focused on campus and faculty expansion...
...typical yoga-therapy session with Dr. Elizabeth Visceglia, a psychiatrist and yoga therapist based in New York City, often starts with some kind of breath work - energizing breaths for people who are depressed, balancing breaths for those with anxiety. Then patients practice yoga poses geared to their specific needs. People with severe posttraumatic stress disorder, for example, are prone to losing their sense of being in the room when they experience a vivid reliving of their trauma. So Visceglia has them hold simple grounding positions, like the warrior or chair pose, before transitioning into talk therapy...
...Physiology that sugary energy drinks activate reward and pleasure regions in the brain, a boost that can translate to better performance - and one that does not occur with other artificially sweetened beverages. In the study, volunteers who got sugary energy drinks were able to complete a physical-training session 2% faster than those who got artificially sweetened drinks, and improved their mean power output as well...
...Flores ’10. History department financial administrator Cory Paulsen, who has worked at Harvard for about two decades, said she has not ever witnessed the degree of transparency offered by the town hall meeting. She said she suspects that for most of the question-and-answer session, individuals will express their fears of impending layoffs. “It will be good for people who aren’t really in a position where they have to possibly lose an odd job or home, to hear the voice of someone who is actually facing that...