Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Within the Cambridge community, Harvard has long been viewed as some sort of amoral juggernaut, gobbling up real estate, intoxicated by its own power and thereby above the standards of simple human decency," Damon said. "Their resistance to a living wage does nothing to counter this characterization...
This liberty interest, implicating personal privacy as it does, is designed to protect the worth and dignity of each human, to create a zone into which the government may not enter without good and proper cause. It runs counter to our notion of decency and fair play that any person should be taken aside and searched without probable cause of some wrongdoing, but random drug testing is a search based upon presupposed guilt without any suspicion, much less probable cause...
Allison A. Melia is wrong to say that Harvard students "don't care" about the plight of non-human animals suffering at the hands of our University and beyond (Opinion, "Monkeys Roam, Even in the Yard," May 1). Many of us do care, deeply, despite the fact that Harvard students were sadly not well-represented at last week's "World Week for Animals in Laboratories...
...devoted to helping animals, one at Harvard Law School and one at the College. The law school organization, called the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, is active, with over 70 members. The College organization, called Vegitas, has over 100 members. Together, these two organizations are busy proving that non-human animals do have allies among members of the Harvard community...
Fidel Castro is not a threat to the interests of the United States. So what? His record on human rights is nothing short of abominable, as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights recently reaffirmed, and this is something that should concern us all. As should analogous abuses in China, Myanmar, Afghanistan and other countries...