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Today, Gould-Wartofsky and his coterie are the main voices of Harvard students willing to cause trouble for change—a far cry from Harvard’s history of lots of students standing up for change...
Though he does not consider himself to be an activist in the strictest sense of the word, Amutah is a part of the small group of progressives who work to keep an open dialogue on life at Harvard. He is one of the main writers for the liberal campus blog Cambridge Common, and he contributed to the controversial online Disorientation Guide to Harvard that launched earlier this month...
...studies falling under its often controversial umbrella. Women and gender studies, on the other hand, touches upon subjects like women’s history and literature, masculinity, and feminism. Obviously, at many points, the study of gender and the study of sexuality will intersect, largely because gender is the main lens through which sexuality is examined in our society. As a result, it can appear difficult, if not impossible, to disengage them into neatly compartmentalized fields...
...vandalize Apache, but such submissions rarely pass preliminary stages of review and certainly never affect any final product.Despite concerns about quality control, open-contribution projects such as arXiv, Apache, Linux, and Wikipedia have all competed well against similar proprietary initiatives for this reason: Established or presumed credibility is the main metric by which members of open cooperatives decide how much weight to attach to any contribution. Perelman’s bold claim of having proved Poincaré was taken seriously at its outset only because Perelman was already an established mathematician. Such attention would not be accorded to a novice...
...divorce rate is assumed to be another main factor for so many unmarried households. But the divorce rate has not gone up in twenty years; in fact, it's been fairly stable at around 42 percent. Divorce did lead to a boom in single-parent households during the 1970s and 1980s, but that doesn't explain what has happened since then. Also keep in mind that getting divorced doesn't mean you are divorced-forever-after; about two-thirds of those who divorce will remarry, jumping back to the "married household" side of the white picket fence...