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...creating a sexual harassment policy, then, was to distinguish between criminal offenses and more casual cases of insensitivity, while at the same time discouraging both with equal seriousness.Verba’s work was a pivotal component of the effort to raise awareness on campus and encourage a shift away from the passive recognition of previous generations toward outspoken condemnation.“We were changing a whole culture in which it was okay to have dates with your students and it was okay to have long private conversations with female students behind closed doors,” said Putnam...
...India (which account for 37 percent of the global population). The normal sex ratio at birth is roughly 106 males for every 100 females, but it may presently be as high as 120 for young people in China, or as high as 111 in India. This shift may arise from preferential abortion or the neglect of baby girls relative to boys. Gender imbalance may also have other determinants, such as large-scale migration of one or the other sex in search of work. This shift has numerous implications. For example, given the historical role of females as caregivers...
...This shift in gender ratios may have other, less heralded implications, however. Some of our own work has suggested that this shift may actually shorten men’s lives, reversing some of the historic progress our species has made in recent centuries. Across a range of species, skewed sex ratios result in intensified competition for sexual partners and this induces stress for the supernumerary sex. In humans, it seems, a 5 percent excess of males at the time of sexual maturity shortens the survival of men by about three months in late life, which is a very substantial loss...
...understanding of education centered entirely on the importance of their profession, to an idea of education that should—in some imprecise way—encompass a student’s entire life. STUMBLING TOWARD GENERAL EDUCATION Unfortunately, practical change has been slow on the heels of this shift. So far, Gen Ed offerings consist more of old Core and departmental classes than newly created courses, and many professors were obliged to change absolutely nothing about their courses in order to reclassify them. (As Psychology Professor Steven Pinker, who teaches a Science B core, wrote...
...interesting is that both of these events accurately reflect the Harvard’s attitude toward the military: the University president honors those who serve, but other segments of the community limit the recognition they receive for doing so. This complicated balancing act is the result of a shift in American attitudes toward the military. When Harvard banned on-campus recruiting in 1969, anti-military sentiment ran deep in leftist circles. Today, though, even the ardent liberals of Harvard’s faculty are quick to praise the valor of service, saying that the decision not to recognize ROTC...