Word: steven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finish a thought should be understood as common courtesy. You wouldn’t stand up and leave a friend in mid-sentence, nor make a break for the door in response to a TF’s question. Why should Tal Ben-Shahar (or Michael Sandel, or Steven Pinker) have to watch dozens of students decide his final thoughts are worth less than a first look at the lunch offerings? Classes like Positive Psych are impersonal—as is much of the learning process at Harvard—but if students are going to clamor for a more...
Last week’s killing spree at Northern Illinois University (NIU) that left five students dead and 16 wounded is shocking in its apparent randomness and bewildering in the myriad questions it leaves unanswered. Why did Steven Kazmierczak—a kind and intelligent former graduate student at NIU—open fire on a lecture hall full of undergraduate students? What could spur anyone to senseless killing? And perhaps most importantly, what could NIU have done—and what can any other university do—to prevent future tragedies like this one? In NIU?...
Ideal Date: Steven McDonald is my white whale...
...taken to the next level,” Venky said. “That’s a minimum five- to 10-year project. I thought it would be better if a new person comes in.” A committee led by Provost Steven E. Hyman and Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith will be appointed to search for a new leader for the School.“Venky is irreplaceable,” Knowles said, adding that a new head of SEAS will need the “uplifting” leadership style and intellectual breadth that...
...they were to celebrate later that evening. Instead, they became witnesses to a St. Valentine's Day massacre in this campus of 25,000 students in DeKalb, about an hour's drive west of Chicago. Five students were killed. The sixth fatality was the gunman, identified as Steven P. Kazmierczak, 27, who apparently took his own life on the lecture hall stage. Many others were shot or injured, including Peterson, who survived the rampage. It had been a week full of shootings on a number of high school campuses but the deadly six-minute long incident...