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...everything else,” and official channels within MIT have yielded no substantial results, and because legal procedures would not have the same impact as a public campaign.“I needed a way to get people to stop and listen and to bring attention to this problem,” Sherley said.In December 2004, MIT’s division of biological engineering decided not to advance his tenure case, according to the MIT Tech newspaper. Sherley appealed, claiming that he had been denied independent lab space for his entire seven years at MIT due to his race...
...problem can easily be rectified simply by tracking the academic progress of individual students from one year to the next, something that is now being done under the accountability system Jeb Bush set up in Florida. NCLB needs to ask all states to set up a similar system, and then apply it to schools and teachers alike...
...campaign to woo students to the center by distributing coupons for free coffee at SOCH’s Penthouse Coffee Bar to student mailboxes before intersession, and hosting acoustic nights and student-group-sponsored movie nights for the late-night crowd. But some students say that the problem with Hilles has more to do with its location than with lack of student events being held there. “People hear ‘the Quad’ and they think it’s in Outer Siberia—they just don’t want to go there...
Buying bottled water has become a problem. I will not buy Dasani or Poland Spring because both Coca-Cola and Nestle, their respective producers, employ inhumane business practices abroad. Coke has robbed farms and communities in India of precious groundwater and allegedly condoned the assassination of union leaders in Colombia. Nestle has capitalized on the fears of HIV/AIDS-infected mothers in Africa, urging them to buy formula for their children, which often results in these children’s deaths because of missed nutrition from the lack of breastfeeding. The only way that I can tangibly influence the market against...
...Iraqi government has made clear its opposition to U.S. efforts to counter Iranian "meddling", because the Iraqi government sees Iran as a friend. "We have told the Iranians and the Americans, we know that you have a problem with each other, but we are asking you: Please solve your problems outside Iraq," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki recently told CNN. "We don't want the American forces to take Iraq as a field to attack Iran or Syria." Nor is it only the ruling Shi'ite Alliance that views Iran as friend rather than foe. "If you exclude the Sunnis...