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...first career shutout, and all five goals over the weekend came from different Crimson players.Junior Kayla Romanelli and freshman Maggie McVeigh assisted each other’s goals against Holy Cross, tallying a goal and an assist each.Harvard will put its winning streak on the line on Wednesday at No. 3 Connecticut. The Crimson challenges the Huskies at 7 p.m. in Storrs, Conn. Led by senior standout Lizzy Peijs, the Huskies are 7-1.HARVARD 3, PACIFIC 2The Crimson (4-1) fought off a two-goal run by Pacific (1-6) yesterday afternoon at Jordan Field, winning the game, 3-2.Harvard took control...
...University of California has rescinded a speaking invitation to former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers. The decision drew criticism from allies of Summers as well as some of his onetime opponents in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Summers had been invited to speak at a dinner hosted on Wednesday by the University of California board of regents, prompting a group of female University of California at Davis professors to draft an online petition, eventually signed by more than 350 people, protesting the choice. “Inviting a keynote speaker who has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice...
University President Drew G. Faust buoyed the hopes of black campus leaders for what she called “a different Harvard” with more black faculty and staff. Speaking before a crowd of 200 professors, administrators, and students at the Queen’s Head Pub on Wednesday, Faust fueled optimism among black leaders that her presidency will be a turning point for the black community at Harvard. After former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ tenure, which was marked by tension with some African-American scholars (see story, left), some black leaders say they see Faust...
...expectations for professors should be any different. When professors fail to punctually perform their teaching responsibilities before, during, and after the school year, students suffer. Unfortunately, a disturbingly large number of Harvard faculty are currently shirking their responsibility by not posting course syllabi online in a timely manner. On Wednesday, students working for the textbook discount website CrimsonReading.org visited the webpages of 231 popular courses and found only 42 syllabi. That only 18 percent of professors cared enough to post their syllabi is, quite simply, pathetic. This is troubling given the crucial role online syllabi play in students?...
...Under a new proportional electoral system, a slim victory with less than 1.5 percentage points between the two main parties can deprive the winner of an outright majority in parliament. On Wednesday, a host of independent pollsters conducting secret tracking polls said the Prime Minister's threat of political uncertainty in addition to his crisis management after the fires had boosted his approval ratings - a claim denied by socialists, who said that both parties were locked in a "dead even" race...