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Search results for "Harvard" ...
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"Drinking at Duke"
In this two-part series, Sanette Tanaka examines the alcohol policy and drinking culture at Duke University. The reporter reveals differences in drinking policies between private and public universities, as well as examines the effectiveness of the "new associate dean," who has implemented an "education-based harm-reduction model" in an effort to curb "binge drinking among students."
Tags: alcohol; binge drinking; Tom Szigethy; Stanford; Harvard; Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research; UNC; Wake Forest; National College Health Assessment
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God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
"Since 2000, America's most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation's capital. God's Harvard grooms these students to be the elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment and science to wage the battle to take back a godless nation." The book's aim was "to capture this nerve center of the evangelical movement at a moment of maximum influence and also of crisis, as it struggles to avoid the temptations of modern life and still remake the world in its own image."
Tags: God's Harvard; evangelical movement; Roe V. Wade; gay rights; lawyers; politics; immoral; godless nation
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The Devil Next Door
Glenna Whitley investigated allegations against Doug Havard, a former Southern Methodist University student who is accused of turning Perkins Dorm into a crime ring by selling counterfeit driver's licenses, stealing electronics and selling drugs. Whitley interviewed Meghan Bodson, who claims that Havard drugged her with GHB and raped her. Bodson, who eventually left SMU, filed a lawsuit against the university for failing to properly investigate Havard's background and also for allowing him to remain at the university for three months after she exposed his crimes to officials.
Tags: Southern Methodist University; SMU; Doug Harvard; GHB; marijuana; counterfeiting
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A Different Kind of Divide
LaFleur takes the 50 year anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended segregation in schools to show that though things are no longer black and white, Latinos in Texas are generally concentrated in their own schools. She finds that Latino segregation nationwide has increased since the 1960s.
Tags: Latino segregation; segregation in schools; Richardson Terrace Elementary; Maple Lawn; Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
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What happened to Don Wiley? A Harvard professor falls off a bridge and it's ruled an accident. But one question lingers.
This story explains in vivid detail the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of a Harvard professor. The police have been unable to determine if the professor's death was an accident, a suicide, or a murder.
Tags: Harvard; professor; mysterious death; Don Wiley; bridge; investigation
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"For your eyes only"
The story analyzes the cooperation between CIA and American academia to solve intelligence problems. Some scholars, like Bruce Cummings (University of Chicago) and David Gibbs (University of Arizona) criticize this cooperation. The cooperation grants scholars access to classified information. The intelligence-academia relationship is sometimes a source of conflict; some universities have explicit rules that forbid faculty members to conduct classified research, and one of the most controversial CIA policies is "its insistence that scholars sign a lifetime secrecy agreement before receiving a security clearance", Mooney says. Contrary to Cummings and Gibbs' opinion, Joseph Nye (Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School) says his intelligence ties with CIA, State Dept., Defense Dept. and National Security Council have not prejudiced his scholarship.
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Bush, Harken and the Public's Right to Know
National media outlets reported on President George W. Bush's activities as a director with Texas oil company Harken Energy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The stories referenced documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity during the course of research for the book, "The Buying of the President 2000" and two other Center investigative reports. Now, the Center has released new documents--and a series of stories--that shed additional light on what transpired at Harken while Bush was a director, a chronicle of Bush's Harken tenure, and the close relationship between Harvard Management and Harken.
Tags: IRE FOI AWARD CATEGORY; Bush; George W. Bush; Harken; Harvard; Enron; SEC
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The Secret Court of 1920
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard's student newspaper, tells the story of "The Court," a secret university tribunal that labeled 14 men "guilty" of being or knowing homosexuals, following the 1920 suicide of a Harvard student. Some of the men were ultimately forced to leave the university and the city of Cambridge. The Court had been kept secret for more than 80 years.
Tags: homosexuals; suicide; secret; FOI; higher education; colleges; sexual orientation; discrimination; students
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A Scholar's Quixotic Crusade Against Harvard and Its Secrets
The Chronicle of Higher Education follows the story of Peter Berkowitz, a writer of book reviews, who in 2000 "filed a lawsuit against Harvard for denying him tenure in its government department four years ago, becoming the first professor ever to take the institution to court for such a denial." The article reveals that "unlike most universities, Harvard routinely denies the tenure bids of junior scholars," and points out that Berkowitz has already won two legal rounds.
Tags: higher education; universities; litigation; academic affairs; political philosophy; George Mason
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Raising the Perfect Child
Boston Magazine analyses the stress factors for today's children. The story finds that most children have busy schedules and their free time has dropped from 40 percent to 25 percent in the last two decades. "Children are on the brink of burning right before our eyes," warns the author. The report looks at suicide statistics among teenagers. It also includes tables with detailed data on schools' and students' performance in Massachusetts.
Tags: Harvard; M.I.T; schools; education; psychology; suicide; stress; crisis line; colleges; universities