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...Residents of the hall initially voted in favor of the “SEX-C Fund”—Simmons Entertainment Executive Committee—last spring, and an appeal to overturn the decision was voted down last week by a bare majority. The creation of the fund has excited some students and aroused anger in others. Agustya R. Mehta, a junior at MIT and the Simmons Hall officer who brought forward last week’s appeal, is continuing to protest the fund. Mehta is taking his appeal to the hall’s judicial committee...
...insists that it is “better to build up faculty to support the major rather than build the major to the faculty.”When asked why it had taken the university more than three decades to further solidify its commitment to the field with the creation of a center—Harvard’s department began in 1969—Appiah replied, “I’m glad it’s being done now. At Princeton, when it does something it must do it properly.”The creation...
...race was dominated by economic and fiscal issues, principally job creation and wooing business to Massachusetts...
...believe that we really can tell the distance that light has traveled when we perceive it. I don't believe in the Big Bang any more than I buy the parting of the Red Sea. The supposed noise from the Big Bang could just be noise from everyday creation and destruction occurring in the universe. Unfortunately, a lot of science and religion has evolved into fantasies that provide grandiose explanations for questions that may never be answered. Richard Thomas Rowlett, Texas, U.S. The Toughness Test "The end of invincibility" [Sept. 4] illustrated the difficulty of achieving peace in the Middle...
...first step to overcoming a problem is admitting that you have one, then Harvard is on the right track with the creation of the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development. In an initiative independent of the Harvard College Curricular Review, the faculty on the task will submit recommendations to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this spring on improving pedagogy within FAS.The curricular review’s January report on pedagogy gives us some inspiration about where this task force might focus its efforts. That report identifies key areas for improvement, such as the gathering and interpretation...