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...short, we commend the CEA for coming up with a very thorough report. While financial aid for summer study abroad is an excellent idea, we also encourage the CEA to look into ways that Harvard can improve its international resources—whether property or academic partnerships—and increase the academic rigor of study abroad programs. We also urge the CEA to focus on alternative ways for students to gain international experience outside of studying abroad during the semester. A step in the right direction, it is now up to Harvard’s administration to fund these...
...commend TIME for addressing the vitally important subject of U.S. immigration policy. Comprehensive immigration reform must be enacted promptly. Not only are employer sanctions needed to deter the immense flow of illegal aliens to the U.S., but some overall limit on legal immigration also must be established. Otherwise the U.S. will face the same overpopulation-related problems now so obvious in the countries from which most immigrants are coming. M. Rupert Cutler, Executive Director The Environmental Fund Washington...
...commend them,” Yu noted, “but we’re definitely looking forward to meeting them again...
...formalities out of the way and to encourage interaction between freshmen. But freshman week is not quite sufficient in helping freshmen to jump-start their Harvard careers. As Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 takes over as Dean of Freshmen this fall, we commend the College and the Freshman Orientation Advisory Committee (FOAC) for reexamining freshman week, and we offer a few suggestions of how to make freshman week—and, perhaps, the entire freshman year—more useful in acclimating new students to Harvard. As it stands now, freshman week provides...
...commend the recent contract signed by German Education and Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn in Jakarta on March 14 to install an early-warning system, designed by Germany’s largest research institution, the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers. The system will be effective in registering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis and is estimated to cost Germany’s national research center for geosciences, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, roughly 45 million Euro ($60.3 million), a paltry price to pay for the potential lives that will be saved by this early alert system...