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...order to remedy the challenges of insufficient capital, Sebastian turned to the Harvard Campus Grant system to supplement the more conventional avenue of advertisements. The common grant application allows student groups to apply for direct grants from various departments of the University, each affiliated with a particular mission, as well as from the Undergraduate Council. But after weathering the complicated and stressful application process, Sebastian met another financial pitfall when grant after grant was returned with the seal of rejection...
...This reimbursement can take months, simply because the team lacks the money to repay its officers. And after a brief perusal of the grants listed in the Student Organizations Handbook, it becomes clear that groups that fall outside of the particular arenas of women’s issues, public service, race relations, the arts, and politics rarely qualify for assistance from the University, forcing these groups to bear the financial troubles on their...
...judgment—otherwise, legitimate criticisms in the future will be dismissed offhand. The government has never been afraid of targeting civil liberties in the name of national security in the past, but we would be foolish to assume that this is true for all governmental policies. In this particular case, the SmartCheck scanner, aside from being another minor inconvenience, certainly does not infringe upon our civil liberties any more than the ordinary metal detector...
Ganz, who returned to the College in 1991 to finish his undergraduate degree, added that “Obama’s life experience in particular equips him to understand the kinds of ways in which we need to bring a very diverse set of people and interests together around a fundamental group of values—compassion, generosity and tolerance...
While these fears are understandable, they are also misplaced. Critics’ primary objections to activity-based learning stem from the particular vision outlined in the Task Force’s report—a vision that does not reflect the best that activity-based learning has to offer. Well-developed activity-based courses can create potent synergies between real-world experiences and academic exploration, an alchemy that need not intrude on students’ other extracurricular commitments. Such classes stand to significantly enrich undergraduates’ learning experiences, and deserve serious consideration from Harvard’s students...