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Despite its success in fighting many of mankind's worst maladies, medical science has made virtually no headway against a family of viruses that infects about 80% of the world's adult population: herpes simplex type I, which causes cold sores and herpes keratitis (an eye infection responsible for 18,000 cases of blindness in the U.S. every year) and type II, which produces sores in the genital area, and is under suspicion as one cause of cervical cancer...
...statement for medium-sized private universities like this about what should be done in the 1980s for undergraduate education," Pipkin says. This is certainly the aim, as Rosovsky admits, yet all statements of this sort are tempered by further disclaimers maintaining that "nothing radical will come of this" or "success is uncertain" or "the examination is worthwhile even if it fails." In a sense, Rosovsky realizes this is a giant undertaking that rests smack in the middle of the gray areas he's so uncomfortable with; he is, therefore, far from anxious to immediately put all his marbles...
...difficult an undertaking and may leave Harvard in the same quagmire that engulfed Yale and Princeton after their recent reviews of undergraduate education. Some changes no doubt will emerge, since the task force proposals will be put through in piecemeal Faculty legislation--the least likely route to success--along with administrative fiats and subtle persuasion. But then again, it all may end up being no more than a collection of elegant statements--like Dean Rosovsky's discussion of "re-establishing civilized discourse among educated men"--lost somewhere in the gray area between black and white.CrimsonSandy O. Steingard...
...large, succeeded in blocking a drive by District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America to unionize clerical and technical workers both on the main campus and at the Medical Area. The drive, which began in 1974 in the Med Area, has met with near-complete success there, but the failure of the University to recognize the area as an appropriate unit for collective bargaining has resulted in a fiasco whose end still seems more than a year...
...University has already met with a reasonable amount of success in dealing with the problems of government intervention on a cooperative basis with other institutions. Last year, it was instrumental in forming a 30-member ad hoc consortium to draft a coherent program of finance for higher education. The consortium's report, Brewer says, "was the first major effort on the part of these institutions to confront these problems together...