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There is no debate about the reality of that land loss and its impact. On that the energy industry and environmentalists agree. There is also no doubt about the solution. Chip Groat, a former director of the U.S. Geological Survey, says, "This land loss can be managed, and New Orleans can be protected, even with projected sea-level rise." Category 5 hurricane protection for the region, including coastal restoration, storm-surge barriers and improved levees, would cost about $40 billion--over 30 years. Compare that with the cost to the economy of less international competitiveness (the result of increased freight...
...minuses to its grading system, after 46.7 percent of the grades given in its last academic year were ‘A’ marks.And while more than 85 percent of the faculty and graduate students support the change in grading policy according to a 2002 grade inflation survey, a recent Brown Daily Herald poll found that 70 percent of Brown undergraduates oppose the change.The Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is hosting a forum this afternoon in an effort to voice student opinion before the faculty votes to amend the grading system.Brown’s current curriculum, implemented...
...often forced to take a specific Core course in order to graduate.Second, as the French revolution courses illustrate, it is illogical for only one of two similar courses to count for Core credit. This is especially true because Core courses tend to have narrower focuses than departmental survey courses. Why force a student to study five performance premieres in Literature and Arts B-51,“First Nights,” if they would rather study 1,000 years of music in Music 1a, “Introduction to Music I?” This goes to the heart...
...than professors did. “Senior professors can shunt off the more tedious jobs, like teaching freshmen or grading papers, to low-caste graduate students or visiting lecturers,” Tierney wrote. “That’s why Summers had to push them to teach survey courses and other basics.” Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor, responded to Tierney’s column by submitting an Op-Ed piece to the Times. So far, Ulrich said, the newspaper has declined to publish her piece because the Op-Ed page doesn?...
...director would report to Associate Dean for Administration and Finance John F. Gates, and would help build “a Harvard College community,” according to the advertisement. Revitalizing student life at the College has been a priority for college administrators after a series of satisfaction surveys have shown that Harvard students are more dissatisfied with their undergraduate experience than peers at other colleges. Last spring, the Boston Globe reported on an internal College memo from 2002 that revealed that Harvard students gave lower ratings to their college experience than students at other elite schools. The memo...