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...rally on behalf of staff. Kimberly Theidon, an associate professor of anthropology, has proposed the “1% Campaign,” which calls for a voluntary 1 percent faculty pay cut to help stave off staff layoffs. She said that she has witnessed “overwhelming willingness?? to participate among faculty. But according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell, the institution of even an across-the-board 2 percent salary reduction for non-union workers would have only a “minor impact,” saving less than $5 million—only...
Last year, former Campus Life Fellow Justin H. Haan ’05, along with HoCos, organized the first pep rally in recent years. The success of the event, which drew about 2,500 students, was indicative of the College’s willingness??and student receptiveness—to increase social planning for Harvard-Yale weekend. HoCos were given funding to hold stein clubs to encourage students to attend the pep rally, according to Greenfield...
...scientists. “If you talk to us in science gobble,” he said, “we will smile and nod and ignore you.” Capuano expressed optimism about the political future of stem cell research, citing the “surprising willingness?? of many conservative policymakers to modify their viewpoints on the issue. “No politician,” he said, “wants to look at the mother of a child with cancer in the eye and tell her that ‘my personal God says...
Gabrielse, who teaches the popular Science-A course “Reality Physics,” provides optimistic advice tinged with wistfulness for the 60s. But what separates him from the nostalgic contributors to Take My Advice is his sense of balance regarding the past, and his willingness??especially manifested through his cutting-edge scientific research—to “live in the now” after drawing what lessons he can from bygone years. This balance is what activist John Zerzan lacks in his contribution, which rails against “the cancer-like domination...
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