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...hundred miles away in New Haven, the prospect of menstrual blood and zygote parts is raising eyebrows. Aliza Shvarts, a Yale arts student, ignited a media firestorm last week when she refused to acknowledge that her senior art project, in which she sought to regularly conceive and abort a slew of fetuses over the course of nine months, had actually been a hoax.Shvarts, a senior in Yale’s Davenport College, claims to have assembled a number of “fabricators” for her project who, at regular intervals in the last year, provided her with sperm...
Come September, students will no longer arrive on campus to a slew of fresh-faced faculty members. Instead, the same professors with the same interests will stand up to present much the same material as the year before. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) can expect a “pause” in faculty hiring during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, who recently proposed the measure. While University Hall’s desire to maintain a manageable faculty size in the face of administrative and programmatic changes is completely understandable, this...
...Senior Day at Reese Field, the Bulldogs will counter with a slew of seniors, including one of the top goalies in the league, George Carafides, who sits second in the Ivies with 11 saves per game. Carafides had 19 stops in last weekend’s 10-2 victory over Air Force...
...quantify what, exactly, a company gets when it puts money into bonding with its workers. Consultancies such as Towers Perrin, Watson Wyatt, Hewitt Associates and the Gallup Organization measure how "engaged" workers are and then counsel companies on how to ratchet up those scores. The result is a slew of initiatives--like frequently telling workers how they generate value and offering them free retraining to move from one division to another--that go far beyond the rudimentary concept of motivating people with pay to get them to work harder. "In competitive times, we all have to achieve more with less...
...Sarah Marshall,” the next installment in the seemingly endless string of Judd Apatow-produced comedies, might settle Segel’s relationship problems for good, and not just because of his hysterically drawn-out nude scene. After a slew of supporting roles in television and a successful writing career, Segel seems poised for breakout success. “When I was like 20, I had just finished ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and I was walking my first red carpet and I was really excited and someone, a photographer, yelled...