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Addressing parents on campus for Junior Parents Weekend, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said Friday that grades “have not inflated tremendously” over the past eight years and that the issue was not a major concern. “I haven’t pressed too hard on this issue since I’ve been dean,” Gross told parents in a nearly full Sanders Theatre. “One reason was that I felt it was more important that the Faculty concentrate more on what...
...local debate has become one of the liveliest in the food world. Last year Wal-Mart began offering more organic products--those grown without pesticides, antibiotics, irradiation and so on--and the big company's expansion into a once alternative food culture has been a source of deep concern, and predictable backlash, among early organic adopters...
...local-eating set. In her 2001 memoir, This Organic Life, Columbia University nutritionist Joan Dye Gussow writes that her commitment to eating locally "is probably driven by three things. The first is the taste of live food; the second is my relation to frugality; the third is my deep concern about the state of the planet." I don't have much relation to frugality, and, perhaps foolishly, I'm more optimistic than Gussow about our ability to develop alternative energy sources...
...scintillating and sexy talk,” Amber A. Madison—the author of “Hooking Up: A Girl’s All-Out Guide to Sex and Sexuality”—spent an hour discussing college students’ most intimate sexual concerns. Enough students came to fill Ticknor Lounge in Boylston Hall, where the talk was held. “Where is the clitoris?” one student asked, via the blue index cards that were provided to allow anonymity. “You can go home and Google that...
...Despite the sequestration of the dissident Buddhists, Hanoi's communist leaders have been working hard to dispel the country's reputation for persecuting religion. After the U.S. in 2004 placed Vietnam on its list of "Countries of Particular Concern" for blocking religious freedom (North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and China are all on the list), Hanoi passed a new law outlining ways for non-state religions to gain official approval. The next year, it allowed Nhat Hanh to return to Vietnam for the first time in 40 years. Late last year, Washington removed Vietnam from the religious-freedom blacklist...