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...League athletics are rarely touted as the pinnacle of collegiate sports. Though Princeton and Pennsylvania occasionally pose a serious threat to opponents in the world of men's basketball, the rest of the Ivies seem to accept their status in and understand the ever-elusive nature of the NCAA Tournament. At Harvard, March Madness more aptly describes the flood of papers and exams before spring break...
Currently, the NCAA is still planning its course of action, though the report proposed several possible remedies...
...seems to me that one of the virtues of academic environments is that one is able to integrate work and family life," she said. Though maternity leaves and child-rearing have sometimes been cited as the reasons why more women aren't tenured, Seltzer has a theory...
...current fight echoes an earlier argument, over the "New Math" of the '60s and '70s. Then, as now, the old ways were thought to have failed. A small band of mathematicians proposed shifting the emphasis towards a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts, though on a much more abstract level than today's reformers. Math educators took up the cause, but over time, most mathematicians and parents became unhappy with the results. What had gone wrong? Preoccupied with "understanding," the "New Math" reformers had neglected computational skills. Mathematical understanding, it turned out, did not develop well without sufficient computational practice. Understanding...
...though they may disagree on the best method to persuade the University to adopt a living wage, councillors agree Harvard's adoption of such a wage has taken far too long...