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Eventually, she says that she would like to teach an undergraduate course. When asked if teaching was a way for her to enlist the best and brightest to join her research team, D’Souza breaks into a wide smile and says, “Yes, that’s the whole idea...
...Seconds to Mars "From Yesterday" Dir. Bartholomew Cubbins If music videos teach you one thing and one thing only, let it be this: never follow a man wearing impeccable eyeliner. 30 Seconds to Mars’ “From Yesterday” places thoroughly made-up Jared Leto and his three companions in ancient China, complete with a child emperor and a non-sequitur samurai. There’s some plot about time travel and lost love and a treasure map, but it’s only a weak set up for some amazingly incongruous scenes: four pale...
...behavior and design the day around them. They can be counter-stereotypical, providing role models of men who mentor, who challenge, who inspire, sometimes by their evident affection for Cicero or the piccolo, for physics or Sandburg or ceramics. Manly examples of adults who have chosen without reluctance to teach and to pursue a passion that is not rich in monetary reward but, here at least, socially respected, gives children the opportunity to learn “there are many ways to be a boy,” as the Allen-Stevenson School in New York states in its mission...
...Harvard wants its graduates to be active thinkers, citizens and leaders, it must first teach students the value of being active. It’s time for Harvard to listen to Reese Witherspoon, endorse exercise, and offer...
...guest” instructors. Although Harvard does not publicize faculty salaries, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2002 that the average salary for a TA at a private university was $64,149. Assume a faculty of 50 (slightly less than three times as many as are hired to teach Wellesley’s 2,300 undergraduates) paid at this rate and faculty salary costs would total $3,207,450. Startup costs would add to this figure, but the administrative costs of running a successful PE department would also probably be roughly three times as much as the annual...