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Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 calls Loker—a space that had formerly housed a “Psycho Acoustic Laboratory” which conducted secret military research, the labs of behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner and assorted student offices—an ultimate failure on the part of the administration, an attempt to do too much in too small a space...
...Jews. Tainted by this association, the idea of innate behavior was in full retreat for most of the middle years of the century. In 1958, however, two men began the counterattack on behalf of nature. Noam Chomsky, in his review of a book by the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, argued that it was impossible to learn human language by trial and error alone; human beings must come already equipped with an innate grammatical skill. Harry Harlow did a simple experiment that showed that a baby monkey prefers a soft, cloth model of a mother to a hard, wire-frame mother, even...
Harvard shut down the Bulldogs despite missing Ruggiero for 12 minutes during that stretch. The Crimson rotated four defensemen—Ruggiero, sophomore Ashley Banfield, senior Pamela Van Reesema and captain Jamie Hagerman—for most of the game. Freshman Jennifer Skinner filled in during Ruggiero’s absence...
...interference penalty and a 10-minute misconduct with five minutes left in regulation. The calls forced Harvard to play the next 12 minutes, including seven of overtime, without the best defenseman in the world. The Crimson more than held its own during that stretch, however, with freshman defenseman Jennifer Skinner replacing Ruggiero...
...minute misconduct. Harvard was thus forced to kill the two-minute penalty and play the next ten minutes, including five of overtime, without the best defenseman in the world. Yet through those ten minutes, the Crimson did more than hold its own, generating some fine chances. Freshman Jennifer Skinner did her part in replacing Ruggiero on defense for that span...