Word: coding
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...Harvard, MIT and the Cambridge-based Whitehead Institute announced Thursday a sweeping new biomedical research center aimed at harnessing the recently-revealed code of the human genome for clinical ends...
...world may study Harvard, but how does Harvard study the world? The early answer would seem to be: rather well, here in Cambridge (we do teach 54 languages!), but rather fitfully, outside of zip code 02138. As I told our first-year students when they arrived in September: “You are here to learn, but your learning need not take place only here.” To that end, we issued new guidelines for study abroad, planned a series of new programs on five continents and established an Office of International Programs to promote, develop and manage...
...despite the pretense of the press pass, hard-hitting investigative journalists we ain’t. The hardest part about this assignment was costume choice. The dress code was casual elegance, which conjured visions of a languid Gwyneth Paltrow on mini-break in Martha’s Vineyard. Our collective penchant for polo shirts aside, we were a decidedly un-WASPy duo. A strident atheist from the colonies and a half-Asian from the land of café au lait do not a country club maketh, as the saying goes. Consequently, many anguished e-mails ensued in our attempt...
...more unsettling challenge to free speech came when students at the Law School demanded a speech code for their peers. After a string of racially-charged incidents last year, a representative from the Black Law Students Association asked that the Committee on Healthy Diversity expand the Law School’s anti-harassment code in order to shield students from future racial insensitivity, specifically from racist speech...
Racist speech is deplorable. But it is dangerous to crack down on any speech—no matter how unpalatable—and speech codes are certainly not the answer. The biggest problem with speech codes is the potential for abuse. Students and administrators can treacherously interpret speech-code guidelines to attack others who have simply been insensitive or sophomoric, not threatening or racist. Students, afraid of repercussions, would also be discouraged from speaking their minds on a range of important diversity issues with even the loosest of rules in place. To its credit, the Law School...