The family of late Tuck School of Business professor Leonard Morrissey has made a donation to Hanover's Howe Library that will allow it to be open seven days a week, the Valley News reported. The library had previously closed on Sundays during the summer. Sundays during the school year are the library's busiest days, according to the Valley News. Although Morrissey's family did not disclose the full amount of the gift, interest from the donation will be enough to cover the $4,200 needed to expand hours.
Race has little effect on students' friendships on Facebook, according to a recent study by Harvard University and the University of California, Los Angeles, Inside Higher Ed reported. The study, which appeared in The American Journal of Sociology, examined both friendship requests and picture tagging, the latter of which is a better measure of real life interaction, according to the authors. The study found that students accepted and extended friendship requests and tagged photos of students of all races, leading the researchers to conclude that past research may have "exaggerated the role of race in social relationships." Because the paper examined only one class at a "top-tier" institution, the researchers speculated that socioeconomic class could play a greater role in Facebook friendships elsewhere, according to Inside Higher Ed.
The Educational Testing Service has decided to cancel the test scores of the approximately 24,000 students in China who took this month's Graduate Record Examination, according to Inside Higher Ed. The testing service decided to cancel the scores after finding that the quantitative and verbal parts of the test had previously been administered in China. ETS will offer test-takers the option of either retaking the test on November 20, taking the test during its normal administration next June, or receiving a refund. Robert Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing told Inside Higher Ed there is broad frustration among students who took the test, although he acknowledged that using previously-asked questions would give some students "a huge advantage." Schaeffer questioned the testing service's competence in administrating tests to foreigners in the wake of a similar incident in India last year, when thousands of students could not take the GRE on its scheduled day, Inside Higher Ed reported. These errors can be particularly distressing in countries like India and China, where students travel long distances to take tests and spend months intensively preparing, according to Inside Higher Ed.
