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...according to a National Academy of Sciences expert panel, Summers’ wish has come true. The expert panel said in a report released yesterday that “bias and outmoded practices”—not biological differences—explain why women continue to be underrepresented on the hard-science faculties of universities and colleges...
AHMADINEJAD: People in the world are free to think the way they wish. We do not insist they should change their views. Our position toward the Palestinian question is clear: we say that a nation has been displaced from its own land. Palestinian people are killed in their own lands, by those who are not original inhabitants, and they have come from far areas of the world and have occupied those homes. Our suggestion is that the 5 million Palestinian refugees come back to their homes, and then the entire people on those lands hold a referendum and choose their...
...should do away with the three-year and eight-year rules to allow the best lecturers to continue to teach on a contract basis.Proponents of the current system offer two main arguments. First, they hope that Ph.D. candidates and preceptors will go on to bigger and better things, and wish not to promote full-time instruction as a viable career choice. This strain of opposition is not only misguided—Harvard instructors are capable of making their own career choices—but it necessarily compromises Harvard’s ostensible commitment to teaching by suggesting that college instruction...
Basile said that spare rooms should be made available for students who wish to move. “I wake up at 7 a.m. to compose letters to ask to change rooms,” he said...
...Rengarajan ’10 of Grays Hall. “We all got matching hats. It’s roommate-bonding night.” Despite spending almost an hour in line for the bumper cars, Oliver A. Horovitz ’08 said, “I wish we had this when I was a freshman because this is about 800 times cooler than the ice cream social.” The student-run College Events Board (CEB), funded by $200,000 from University Hall, planned the carnival—the first in a series of activities, including...