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...many of the killer bylines only popped up occasionally. "They were willing to throw tons of money at writers, but they couldn't figure out how to use them," says a former staffer. "They all got about two stories in the magazine. They killed one of David Margolick...
...even debuted a clothing line of CS50 apparel. His former Mather House Master, Sandra A. Naddaff ’75, is hardly surprised by these endeavors. “He has a very entrepreneurial spirit as well as real intellectual creativity and he’s not afraid to use it in the classroom,” says Naddaff. Professor and Associate Dean for Information Technology Henry H. Leitner attributes increasing enthusiasm for Computer Science to Malan’s dynamic approach. “Malan has almost single-handedly been responsible for significant increases in the Computer Science concentration...
...wonderful speaker.” It’s no surprise then, that even Jasanoff’s 10 a.m. lectures are consistently full. Furthermore, students in Jasanoff’s lectures aren’t often found Facebook stalking or Gchatting, but listening and note-taking. Jasanoff enjoys using narratives and stories in her lectures, explaining, “I try to tell stories because I think it’s important to capture something about human experience in the past.” William C. Quinn ’10 calls Jasanoff one of the best lecturers he?...
...history of amphetamines shows that the use of Adderall to study or to get high at college campuses has exploded. While drugs like Adderall, Ritalin, and Concerta are prescribed primarily to treat ADHD/ADD, multiple surveys reveal rampant use—as great as 35 percent of students on some campuses—of students who admit to the illegal use of a prescription stimulant...
...Despite the short-term academic gains, there is no evidence that Adderall improves learning overall or that short-term gains in learning persist without the continued use of the drug. What a user produces on an exam will not necessarily translate to long-term knowledge or improved performance without the continued use of the drug...