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Though the administration claims that the meeting with Will was merely to be a “casual conversation,” that the editor felt threatened enough to resign speaks volumes. No matter how offensive the cartoon might have been, the Business School has absolutely no right to intimidate Will when it is upset with Harbus’ content; the paper is an independent entity with no financial ties to the school. For the HBS administration to threaten Will for actions he took in a role entirely separate from his position as a student sets a dangerous precedent...
Jost said that more than answering trivia questions—“I’m not great at trivia,” he said—he enjoyed the casual banter the game encouraged from its contestants...
...back of a baseball card, which are either counting (total home runs or wins) or percentage (batting average or slugging percentage), Morris’s formula was derived from a technique in academic statistics known as Markovian modeling, which he says makes it qualitatively different from any statistic a casual fan would be familiar with. RPG, Morris says, takes much of the interpretation out of statistics (different fans may value on-base percentage or RBI differently, and sabermetricians frequently assign debatable weights to statistics such as stolen bases) and says with statistical certainty how many runs per game nine...
...most casual observers of women’s hockey, the Crimson first line consists of Jennifer Botterill, Julie...
...Anytime someone is treated disrespectfully, rarely do these violations translate into more than a casual conversation. It would be incorrect to think of the meeting [between the editors and Nelson] as the first step of a disciplinary process, or as the triggering or escalating anything,” he added...