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...mean to sound like former Harvard psychology lecturer Timothy F. Leary, famous for his advice to “Tune in; turn on; drop out.” I’m not hocking a bunch of naïve, quasi-mystical “consciousness-expansion?? cliches. Getting high may be a journey to new realms of consciousness, but it won’t lead to profound epiphanies or transcendence of any kind. Still, it can be a fun and intelligent way to spend some time away from the worries and anxieties of school...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) identified the apartments as “troubled” property in need of repairs to remain viable. Aware that the apartments needed resources for extensive renovation—and that their land was an obvious site for University expansion??the Charlesview Board of Directors approached Harvard in 2003 seeking a deal that would result in a better facility. Since then, the Board has rejected two offers from Harvard, maintaining that those sites lacked adequate access to amenities like public transportation. “It’s not a Harvard...
...place. This provision—arguably the centerpiece of the Patriot Act—allows the government to conduct searches upon the basis of “reasonable necessity” without the knowledge of those being searched. Though defenders of the provision call it an “expansion?? of the Fourth Amendment, in reality it is a clear violation of that constitutional right. The Act’s renewal is not the only recent invasion of citizens’ privacy in the name of fighting terror that gives us pause. In the fall, the Bush administration...
...accomplished what they were hired to do. Nobody can seriously claim that Summers’ performance violates the first shibboleth. And, reviewing the 2001 reportage about the Corporation’s goals for a new president—stronger leadership, higher standards, an aggressive curricular review, and Allston expansion??it is hard to argue that, in terms of substance, Summers has not lived up to expectations...
...belie equally unpleasant policies and methods. My point is that the Faculty simply lacks a sufficient body of hard evidence to back up its many perceptions. The most reasonable source of Faculty anger with Summers is the diversion of funds from Faculty and other budgets to pay for Allston expansion??which will only benefit professors in certain fields, such as the sciences, that will get new facilities across the River. But this, along with minor instances of objectionable behavior, wouldn’t convince me to slap Harvard’s president with a vote of no confidence...