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...don’t know what the coaches have in store,” Sproul said. “We have a lot of depth in the upper class, so we’ll see if they go for experience or speedy legs...
Recent discourse regarding gender issues on the Harvard campus has centered upon issues of women in science, female tenured faculty, and general representation of women in University President Lawrence H. Summers’ administration. Yet as many criticize sexism in the upper tiers of academia, there has been a dearth of regard for gender politics in undergraduate organizations. While students decry the gender prejudice stemming from Mass Hall, undergraduate leaders should be looking in their own Yard...
...brain is that it is vulnerable to the power of suggestion. There is plenty of evidence that when young women are motivated and encouraged, they excel at science. For most of the 1800s, for example, physics, astronomy, chemistry and botany were considered gender-appropriate subjects for middle-and upper-class American girls. By the 1890s, girls outnumbered boys in public high school science courses across the country, according to The Science Education of American Girls, a 2003 book by Kim Tolley. Records from top schools in Boston show that girls outperformed boys in physics in the mid-19th century. Latin...
...have to catch them young if you want to increase the number of women in the upper ranks of science and math. Otherwise, says Anneila Sargent, an astronomy professor and radio-observatory director at the California Institute of Technology, if you wait until graduate school, "the pot of candidates just isn't that big." Nor is there much turnover on the tenure track. Even after a high-profile push at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, women accounted for just 34 of the school's 262 science professors in 2003--or 13% of the total, up from 8% in 1993. Says...
Recent results have only bolstered that assertion. Harvard comes into the game as one of the hottest teams in the nation, unbeaten in its last 13 contests, dating back to last calendar year. The Big Green, having asserted itself alongside the Crimson in college hockey’s upper echelon, brings special intensity to meetings with its main Ivy foe and will have something to say about the continuation of that unbeaten streak...