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These communities, intended microcosms of the College, are the product of many student-faculty debates??the first of which were started by the class...
Although the class of 1985 may not have implemented a change in the residential housing program, its debates??the first large-scale discussions on the topic—would come to inform and prepare the College for the randomization of the housing selection system 11 years later...
Harvard’s official outlook, to be fair, does mention “late-night talks and dinner-table debates?? as an important element of undergraduate life. Presumably, the collegiality present in these informal interactions could drive education at the College. However, to raise student collegiality to the level of the lecture hall would come precariously close to making academics not “whatever we choose it to be” and instead a matter of a common search for understanding—one that can’t be left at the exit...
Pankratz said that the campaign decided not to participate in the presidential debates??which some feel would have increased the ticket’s credibility—as a deliberate effort to highlight the forum’s failure to stimulate original dialogue and to showcase differences amongst the tickets...
...rights and freedoms of individuals; and “Virtue”—promoting virtue through government and law. Using examples from hotly-debated political issues such as universal healthcare, the Wall Street bailout, and same-sex marriage, Sandel argued that most of society’s debates??though they seem to hinge on questions of maximizing happiness and respecting individual freedoms—are really “debates about what virtues...should government, law, and public policy embody, encourage, and express.” “Politics and law can?...