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...skeptics include Interim University President Derek C. Bok, who addressed the practice in his 2003 book “Universities in the Marketplace.” “Unfortunately, in their zeal to bring more revenue to their universities, technology transfer officers have occasionally acted...in ways that threaten to slow progress rather than promote it,” he wrote. But the white paper’s supporters say it will facilitate the process by which inventions in the academic world create tangible changes in the real one. “The emphasis here is on getting inventions...
Every March I threaten to have an Oscar party and then I don’t. I tell everyone I know to take out their old prom dresses for the party (I still have mine, a lime green mini-dress that was much more awesome than my actual prom, considering that I stayed at the prom for approximately five minutes, danced with no one while my date pretended that we had never met and drank out of an embossed flask. Also, all my friends cried.) Then I invite them to come to my room, where I promise to provide champagne...
...just that bad buildings may get built. The proposed art center, packed into a too-small site, its public purpose largely undefined, is such a building. For all its environmental rectitude, Harvard’s Allston Science Complex is too tall for the neighborhood, and new roadways threaten to make our already congested traffic unbearable. But the greater shame is the lost opportunity to really create what Harvard said it wanted: a new sort of campus community...
...line can be drawn at some point as to what constitutes a "Jewish view," and it is fair to say that both Weiss and Finkelstein have routinely crossed that line. They not only disparage other Jewish opinions as inauthentic and conspiratorial, but have supported those who commit violence and threaten genocide against the Jewish people...
...your way out. 3) Go to breakfast. Strike the gong. Escape as sleep-addled Adamsians struggle to apprehend you. 4) Go to lunch. Strike the gong. Accuse a nearby resident. 5) Switch the placards in the Adams tunnels, forever stranding residents in the labyrinth under Plympton Street. 6) Threaten to call a dean if you’re not swiped in. This will confuse them and prevent them from calling a dean on you. 7) Whitewash the murals in the tunnels. Without a steady supply of morbid verse and pornographic popular art, Adamsians will quickly wither and die. 8) Find...