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...This is about using the best practices,” she told University representatives yesterday. “Make it happen because it’s the right thing to do.” The Harvard project has long been a focal point for community resentment. Permission to develop the property on Cowperthwaite Street and another plot along the Charles River came only after a long series of negotiations between the city, residents, and the University—and after Harvard agreed to provide 36 units of affordable housing and a public park for Cambridge. But residents continue to voice...
...hiring as associate dean for academic affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Casey, who is a swim champion, fills the vacancy left by Vincent J. Tompkins, who departed for Brown in the fall. “Brian Casey has a rich expertise in academic planning, faculty development, and the range of policies that support faculty life,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote in an e-mail yesterday. Kirby has said he hopes to expand the Faculty, currently at nearly 700 professors, to 750 by 2010. Since moving into his University Hall office?...
...Adequate need-based student aid, especially in the form of scholarships, is essential if this country is to develop the talents of our young people to the fullest,” she wrote...
...prefects’ duties. Such a move would be ineffective, as upperclassmen are simply too busy to handle academic advising and facilitate social life at the same time. More importantly, making prefects academic advisors blurs the relationship between students and prefects. Prefects, to do their jobs effectively, need to develop casual and informal relationships with students, something that will be made difficult if prefects are expected to be formal academic advisors. Instead, the College should establish a new peer advising program alongside a better funded and better managed Prefect Program. Freshmen would benefit invaluably from the kind of honest...
...Tsotsi” is adapted from award-winning playwright Athol Fugard’s compelling and humanistic novel by the same name. Both Hood and Fugard cling tightly to literary motifs, using themes of “decency” and “identity” to develop the protagonist from a street-hardened boy to a compassionate man with whom an audience can empathize. If not for Hood’s unique investigation into the nuances of life, Tsotsi’s complex psyche and troubled human interactions could have overwhelmed the film’s slow dramatization...