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...class that would be necessary for almost any government student preparing for general exams in that field.Putnam said that the Department assigned him to co-teach the course with Dominguez to minimize the controversy surrounding his continued teaching presence, even as they were unwilling to take disciplinary action against the University’s sole expert in Latin American politics at the time.In the months after the Dominguez incident went public, female graduate students began demanding that the University allow them to “dissociate” from individuals implicated in sexual misconduct. Students could then be exempt both...
...great success due to the efforts of both the administration and student environmental advocacy groups. Harvard kicked off the year with the creation of the Office of Sustainability and a weeklong sustainability celebration, headlined by guest speaker and former Vice-President Al Gore. Subsequently, the Harvard Environmental Action Committee’s extensive involvement in the Massachusetts General Court’s passage of a national energy policy resolution and the school’s selection of U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu for Commence speaker demonstrated the campus’s genuine commitment to greener living.In general, incorporation...
...should take simple measures short of official recognition to help support these students. The scope of cuts to the Harvard Budget continued to widen when announcements of cuts to staff, such as custodians and janitors, were made. While this move generated protests and rallies directed by the Student Labor Action Movement, and even a critical letter from the Cambridge City Council, since the University’s first priority must remain the education and research it can generate, these cuts were unfortunate, but necessary, evils. More troublingly, this crisis revealed a general lack of transparency in University finances. This problem...
...important. In France, I was deliberately given very nice classes, such that I had time to start exploring spontaneity and life outside of the problem set. One week, I decided—at the last minute—to attend a talk by President Sarkozy on affirmative action. Another time I restructured my afternoon in order to listen to former President Giscard D’Estaing speak on the European Union...
...pendulum between questions and answers swung the other way when President George W. Bush took office. This was not an intellectually curious man (though not dumb), and consequently it was not surprising that when a small circle of advisors advocated a certain course of action, Bush did not seek opposing viewpoints or consider all of the questions necessary to arrive at the right answer. When he felt he had an answer, however, Bush defended that answer with great conviction. He was “the decider,” and while you might not have agreed with where he stood...