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...reduce emissions; instead, the student body is giving administrators a goal. When we deal with climate change, we always deal in the long-term, and as the time scales lengthen, so do the unknowns. It is time that we all start accepting the fact that solving the climate change problem requires sacrifice. You write that this measure will guarantee costs, but it will not guarantee savings. Of course it won’t guarantee savings. That is, unless you consider how much it will take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels once 2050 and much farther...
...diversity in academic specialties requires presidential intervention earlier in the hiring process. Harvard’s system of selecting tenure candidates, which relies heavily on current faculty to search for and vet scholars, tends to generate candidates in the same fields and subfields as the professors themselves. This problem is quite insidious because the quality of Harvard’s hires masks the underlying problem...
...effectively,” wrote HCWS director Susan B. Marine in an e-mail. “It’s really important for students to have access to information about new health-related issues that directly impact them, and in this case, it’s a health problem that students can take direct action to prevent!” Marine wrote. Ellen C. Quigley ’07, a campaign organizer, said the timing of its launch was meant to allow the students it reaches to complete the six-month, three-injection series during the academic year. According...
...should openly question why, when violent crime has increased in the City of Boston, its police department seems to have decided that public urination by college students is such a pressing problem. We should also ask why, after the harsher restrictions put in place for the last Harvard-run tailgate roughly doubled admissions to University Health Services, someone had the brilliant idea that even harsher methods would make everyone “safe...
...problem is that while the U.S. and Britain tend to share an absolutist view of enrichment, their allies in Europe tend to be more ambivalent, and there's little support for that position beyond Western Europe. The U.N. consensus is that Iran should be required to satisfy concerns over its program, but not that it be prevented from ever exercising its right as a signatory to the NPT to enrich uranium under IAEA scrutiny...