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...FACULTY APPROVED A VOTE of no confidence in President Larry Summers last week, following his controversial remarks about why women are underrepresented in the fields of math and science. But that is hardly the only controversy roiling the Ivy League these days. Here are some of the other hot-button issues raising temperatures on campus. --By Jeremy Caplan
This afternoon, PTC analyst Kristine Looney is sitting in her cubicle, whose bookshelf holds volumes by Ann Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy. Headphones over her ears, hand on the remote, she is watching the March 13 episode of Crossing Jordan. Suddenly, she hits the pause button. Why? "'Damn,'" she says. "And also they were talking about drugs." Looney, 25, transcribes the quote--"Damn. The second suitcase is still out there"--and it goes into the Entertainment Tracking System (ETS), the PTC's database on more than 100,000 hours of programming. "We track even those minor swears," says Looney...
...decry indecency in pop culture and call for a federal study of its effect on children. The issue is even thorny for Bush, who knows his debt to social conservatives but told C-SPAN in January that parents are "the first line of responsibility. They put an off button [on] the TV for a reason...
When she wakes up every morning, Faith Sadar ’08 has a lot of things to think about, but which pin to wear isn’t one of them. She’s been sporting versions of the same handmade button every day since her junior year of high school, when she learned that she would someday be eligible to become president...
Article of clothing you can’t live without: Du-rag and FAM Inc. Button-Ups (coming to a store near...