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...habits remains an open question. COMPETITIVE EATINGThe problem is that competitive Ivy League institutions typically pull in loads of students who identify as perfectionists. According to David B. Herzog, director of the Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders at Mass. General Hospital, these traits can have effects that go well beyond intense studying. “Those who put more demands on themselves, are under greater pressure, and are more competitive—like the students who go here—are more conducive to eating disorders,” He says.This could possibly indicate that there...
...leading major initiatives at the University-wide level—constitutes a major asset. We hope, then, that the selection of Hammonds further verifies what University leaders have been hinting for some time: that the authority and autonomy of the College dean will be meaningfully enhanced, empowering her to effect broader institutional change at the College than has been possible in the past.We have every reason to believe that this emerging empowerment of the College’s top administrator will prove to be more than just an illusion. University President Drew G. Faust has already indicated that she would...
...Awareness weeks are here to stay and growing more numerous by the hour. Last week’s plethora of awareness subjects was only the beginning. This week we have pharmacies, sleep, and disabilities to consider. Indeed, awareness weeks usually have the unfortunate effect of making me worry about all the other things of which I may be unaware. When a cursory search of Facebook revealed over 500 separate awareness events in the coming week alone, I was reduced to a quivering wreck. I had no idea about Canadian Landmines or International Plankton. Ignorance had been bliss. Awareness was torment...
Anoshechkina said she hopes that the House’s rezoning will reduce the number of “screaming and crying” freshmen the morning housing letters are delivered, but added that she doubts the initiative will have much of an effect...
...Similarly, on the nuclear issue, Britain's ambassador to the U.N., John Sawers, told reporters that the Security Council would hold firm in the demand for Iran to suspend enrichment, but would pursue that goal through ongoing negotiations even as the limited sanctions are put into effect. Last year's U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Iran does not currently have a nuclear weapons development program has, in effect, removed the sense of looming crisis that had once driven the issue, and rendered the option of a U.S. military strike to destroy Iranian facilities highly improbable. (It is acknowledged...