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There are so many errors in the sociologists' letters to The Crimson that it is tempting to dwell on them. Instead of wearing out the patience of readers, let me share my impressions of Social Studies--as a sociologist who knows something about it. Its program is outstanding, and its reputation in this community richly deserved. Different social science departments have their specialisms, of course, but social inquiry as a whole benefits from (and in my opinion needs) attempts to think generally, to investigate areas that fall between different paradigms of inquiry...
...would have been to single out those soldiers most exposed to the herbicide and compare their cancer rates with those in the ) unexposed population. But when the investigators tried to do this, says Dr. Hoffman, they could not reliably identify the soldiers who had received the highest doses. So instead the researchers adopted a more indirect approach, examining the incidence of six different cancers, including soft-tissue sarcoma and a kind of liver malignancy, that had been tentatively linked to herbicide exposure. Since the CDC settled for an indirect study, many veterans believe the results are of questionable value...
...Earth Day--a day to think about the importance of protecting our environment--by avoiding these non-recyclable cups. And Harvard should provide first-years with the choice that the residents of all of the houses except Adams have in their dining halls--the choice of using reusable glasses instead of wasteful paper ones...
...doing so, however, we did not undercut our position as one of the world's leading centers of social theory and comparative-historical sociology. We became, instead, a stronger, more balanced department, holding our position as one of the world's best with departments, such as Wisconsin's, which have more than eight times the number of tenured. full-time positions...
...implications of Bok's statement surprised me. I had expected him to say that he could understand the students' views on divestment, or at least that he was sensitive to student concerns. Instead, he categorically dismissed those students who support divestment and claimed that their arguments lacked rational justification...