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...city officials said they could not yet determine whether any part of that fund is invested directly or indirectly in companies tied to Sudan. And Harvard students campaigning for an end to the genocide said they would support a move to divest if city officials discover these connections.Scott Warren, the Brown freshman who worked closely with Providence Councilmen David Segal and Miguel Luna in developing the divestment legislation, said that the move has a significant symbolic effect beyond its monetary impact. A member of the national organization Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, Warren had conducted extensive research and lobbied...
Gottlieb Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren said that she bans laptops from all of her classes not because students are distracted by web surfing, but out of concern that many students transcribe her lectures instead of taking part in the “intense class discussion.” She reported that students are far more engaged in class activities when they are not able to use laptops...
...This was a class about six weeks into the first semester and two-thirds of the students had stuff on their screens that was completely unrelated to contracts,” Parker said. He said that he banned laptops in one of his classes at the urging of Warren, who challenged him to stand up to students who protested the rule by asking, “Are you a man or are you a mouse...
...Amber Zone?s vague border begins in the westernmost tip of the Green Zone, where the Iraqi Ministry of Interior has taken over a complex. It then sweeps north and east, including the reopened al-Rasheed Hotel and the Convention Center where the Iraqi parliament meets, and past a warren of low buildings that houses two Iraqi army brigades called Camp Honor. The area ends at the northeasternmost edge along the Tigris River at the white columns of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and the tree-lined streets around the Prime Minister?s residence. Only the innermost cordon...
Tonight, the Faculty of Arts and Science will consider a motion from Professor Warren Goldfarb (on behalf of the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee) to push concentration choice back a semester. The reasons for the switch seem fairly logical—a slew of first-year requirements and opportunities makes it difficult for freshmen to explore new academic areas in a meaningful way—and the change would bring the College in line with many of its peer institutions...