Word: forums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Groups like I.J.T. are likely to grow more influential, not less, as its graduates move into the political arena. For those students aiming to become social activists on campus, and later politicians on the national stage, involvement in I.J.T. is the only forum available to learn the necessary skills. I.J.T. groups across the nation have embraced the opportunity to mold Pakistan's future politicians. In addition to taking classes on the Koran, members learn how to debate, how to present and defend their views and how to write persuasive proposals. "I.J.T. trains and promotes leadership qualities," says Mumtaz Ahmad Salik...
...more discussion. We want The Salient to have fun with this; we want people to be putting out their own responses to this.” The Salient is Harvard’s right-leaning weekly. John M. Sheffield ’09, vice-president of the Harvard Libertarian Forum who has explored the Disorientation Guide’s website, said that he is frustrated because it “claims to speak for me and my economic class.” “I come from a single–parent family, my family has lived...
...that began “today we mourn the death of a living document” as students dropped daisies on a pile of dirt below a cardboard headstone that read “RIP the Constitution.” The mock funeral took place after an open-mic forum in which speakers expressed their views on U.S. treatment of detainees, and their opposition to or support for the Guantanamo bill. The legislation resulted from a compromise between the Bush administration and a group of Republican senators who believed that the bill initially proposed by the administration was unconstitutional...
...recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics and a “founding father” of the Kennedy School of Government, Thomas C. Schelling, received a warm homecoming at the Institute of Politics last night at a forum celebrating his achievements. Schelling, the Littauer professor of political economy, emeritus, earned the Nobel for his application of game theory to the economics of conflict and cooperation. Schelling addressed a crowd of approximately 400 students, friends, and faculty, touching on topics ranging from some of Schelling’s ground-breaking theories to their applications in the current conflict over...
...want our editorial page to be a forum for our entire readership. We urge you to write to us with your ideas—opinions of your own that you would like to see in print, or thoughts about how we might improve the page and its content. You can send any feedback, whether you’d like it to be published or not, to letters@thecrimson.com...