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...Committee on House Life (CHL) took a step toward a standardized College-wide policy giving upperclassmen the choice to live in mixed-sex rooms yesterday. The committee of students, faculty, and administrators endorsed plans for a task force to establish guidelines that would—in principle—permit co-ed rooming in all 12 Houses, according to members. CHL members said they hope the task force will make it easier for male and female undergraduates to live in suites together by the fall of 2007. According to the Harvard College Handbook for Students, “Harvard does...
University of California, Los Angeles student Adam B. Sterling, co-chair of the task force that led a year-long divestment campaign, said it was important that other universities follow the Regents’ lead and take a stance against genocide...
...Create uninterrupted time for concentrating. If you are trying to do something serious - writing an article or report, interviewing an applicant for a job, or talking your teenager through a crisis - devote ALL of your attention to that task. So, step away from the cell phone and/or BlackBerry. Turn off the alert sounds on your e-mail. You can always turn on an "away" message that explains you'll be back in an hour, or whenever. Doing this will make a huge difference in your productivity, and you'll also discover just how much you've fallen...
...designate it" tactic is a great way to deal with tasks that take too long to do immediately. You just pick a reasonably empty spot on your calendar and schedule the task for that spot - preferably with a reminder alert. Markowitz also suggests bundling non-urgent tasks together at one time, so they don't preoccupy you when you are under the gun. Another tip that's obvious but underused: unsubscribe to useless mailings...
...Desktop management. Research by Mary Czerwinski at Microsoft indicates that a very large computer screen can be helpful in keeping you focused, especially if you keep your main task in the center, your e-mail to one side and a secondary document or task to the other side. If you arrange it right, you can scan to see who's sending you e-mail and decide whether you need to read it right away or wait for later, lessening the interruption. Managing your old-fashioned desktop is a good idea, too. Having some uncluttered space around you actually makes...