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...continued its winning ways with a pair of victories over a visiting Penn squad Monday afternoon at Soldiers Field. The doubleheader sweep helped the Crimson stretch their Ivy League North Division lead to three games heading into divisional play, which starts next weekend at rival Yale. The defending Ancient Eight champions could not have chosen a better time to find their stride, as the weekend’s success extends the Crimson’s win streak to five and improves its home record to 7-0. “This whole weekend was huge...
...students when “serving” justice, yet the accused is never allowed to hear this testimony or see a transcript. In fact, transcripts aren’t even kept. This might be acceptable practice at Guantanamo Bay, but you won’t find it at Yale, Stanford...
...this reality. Only now, more than ever, this forgetting happens collectively, in real time and in a vast electronic echo chamber of delusion. I have always found Harvard a great place, and I think in part this is because I never thought it was the greatest place. Harvard, like Yale, like Southern New Hampshire Community College, like village schoolrooms in Iowa—in short, like any place at all where students meet—is littered with problems, many of them serious. But, rather than sullying the false, frail icon of Harvard perfection which so many believe unquestioningly...
...NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS (Yale University Press; 293 pages), the two University of Chicago professors sketch a new approach to public policy that takes into account the odd realities of human behavior, like the deep and unthinking tendency to conform, even in areas--like energy consumption--where conformity is irrelevant. For 30 years, Thaler has documented the ways people act illogically: we eat more from larger plates, care twice as much about losing money as about gaining it, fret over rare events like plane crashes instead of common ones like car accidents. That research underpins Nudge...
...said that graduate schools should focus on mentoring students and providing realistic expectations for applicants. “Many of us are beginning to put data on the Web that at least show admissions, data completion and attrition data, and placement data,” he said. Russel cited Yale and Duke as graduate schools which have been making online information more available for students, but said that Harvard and his own school Princeton are not up-to-par when it comes to providing online information. Skocpol disagreed with the assessment of Harvard, saying that Harvard does an excellent...