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...business to provide cable via power lines to Harvard’s 12 undergraduate houses, only to see the proposal summarily dismissed by school administrators on the basis of largely superficial objections. Last August, Harvard University Information Services hired an outside consultant to evaluate the Crimson Cable proposal??but kept its results private until just this past week. While the report does raise some concerns regarding the equipment required for—and the liability to be borne by—Castine’s proposed business, the University’s unwillingness to transparently discuss these issues...
...responsibility to the community to deal with issues that require their approval in a timely manner. The issues at hand have already been delayed on account of the Faculty. For instance, course evaluation reform, which has been in the works for years, was tabled last spring so that the proposal??which closes the loophole that allows professors to decline course evaluations for classes with over five students—could be further fleshed out. For these reforms and other important matters to receive this kind of treatment makes one wish that faculty approval were not required to bring...
...confesses he is a “chronic worrier.” He recognizes the need to have something more than a loose code of conduct governing research in synthetic biology, the field in which he focuses. In 2004 he published “A Synthetic Biohazard Non-proliferation Proposal?? advocating specific strategies to strengthen oversight of synbio laboratories. Unfortunately, many concerns raised in this paper still remain unaddressed today. In 2006 Church sought outside support and helped form the International Consortium for Polynucleotide Synthesis (ICPS), which has submitted further proposals for security adoption in conjunction with members...
...Edward M. Kennedy ’54 in 1994, Romney proclaimed to be a bigger champion of gay rights than Teddy. Now, he claims to represent the socially conservative wing of the conservative party. In 2005, Romney praised the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill as a “reasonable proposal?? that is “quite different” than amnesty. Now he calls the bill amnesty and opposes the Bush immigration compromise...
...bill, which was not voted on, called for the appointment of a special referee to mediate future funding conflicts between the University and the student government. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 called it a “compromise proposal??—but it remains to be seen whether the College will accept...