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...effort to revamp the core curriculum “will not amount to any meaningful change” unless the final General Education report includes more stringent guidelines about which courses will count under the new requirements, three undergraduate focus groups concluded yesterday. In a letter sent to the Task Force on General Education, the students expressed broad support for the task force’s philosophy of general education as preparation for life after Harvard. In contrast, the current core emphasizes exposure to different academic approaches to knowledge. But the students expressed concern that the proposed categories could become...
...potential conflicts of interest. But compliance is generally based on the honor system, leaving scientists to interpret the journal policies themselves. (The PloS Medicine paper noted a sharp uptick in the number of articles citing potential conflicts over the five-year study period - a trend Ludwig attributes to more stringent journal standards and better self-policing among scientists...
Antidepressants may cause an increased risk of suicidal tendencies among patients under the age of 24, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel said yesterday, calling for more stringent warning labels on the medications. Formerly, the FDA had only warned about this risk for those under age 18. The news comes just nine months after the University Health Services’ director of behavioral health and academic counseling, Paul J. Barreira, wrote in a letter to The Crimson that about 7 percent of Harvard students are prescribed antidepressants, and that roughly 50 percent report feeling depressed at some point during...
...Fathers. "We try to build something we call international mindedness," says Jeffrey Beard, director general of the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. "These are students who can grasp issues across national borders. They have an understanding of nuances and complexity and a balanced approach to problem solving." Despite stringent certification requirements, I.B. schools are growing in the U.S.--from about 350 in 2000 to 682 today. The U.S. Department of Education has a pilot effort to bring the program to more low-income students...
...lineup by sophomore Nick Coskren…The Crimson managed to dodge the challenge of facing goalie Mark Dekanich, a preseason All-ECAC selection, as freshman Charles Long started in net for Colgate instead. It was Long’s second career start…Due to the stringent refereeing on faceoffs, Harvard was forced to send 11 different men to the faceoff circle over the course of the game, with the Raiders utilizing nine different players. —Staff writer Daniel J. Rubin-Wills can be reached at drubin@fas.harvard.edu...