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...might have reason to worry about unequal access to enhancement, but it is unclear that greater restrictiveness is the right way to combat this problem. When only athletes willing to bend the rules and students with the money to get their hands on an Adderall prescription can benefit, then inequality results. But if we instead work to make enhancement available to all, we create a level playing field—only this one is several rungs higher than the old, unenhanced version. (This logic led the equality-loving John Rawls to conclude that genetic engineering was a boon...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: A Tale of Two Alex-es | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...subscribe to AT&T and suffer from poor cell phone reception may soon find it easier to communicate. According to an e-mail from Associate Dean of Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson to Quad House Masters obtained by The Crimson, a team assembled to address cell phone reception problems in the Quad has agreed with AT&T to install a temporary and later a permanent antenna beginning as early as August, pending approval from the City of Cambridge. The approval process for a permanent antenna could be completed in six to nine months, and the antenna would be placed...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AT&T To Add Antenna To Better Quad Service | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...It’s still a problem,” Dershowitz said. “There is just no room at Harvard for discrimination, we can’t give it any breathing space or wiggle room...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Socially Stratified | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard College has striven over the past four years to impart on us a breadth and depth of knowledge that few institutions of higher learning could rival. From freshman seminars to sophomore tutorials to senior theses, we have all worked incredibly hard in our own fields, reading, writing, doing problem sets, and pouring blood, sweat, and tears into our academic experience. We have also taken what amounts essentially to distribution requirements (as dirty as the phrase might be) in other disciplines, learning how magical numbers can be or how the dinosaurs lived. However, while, for the most part, Harvard sets...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein | Title: The Coddling Bubble | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...could also yield information relevant to the chronic disease epidemic in the US. The bold African Cohort Initiative aspires to fill this knowledge gap, and seeks equally visionary funders to bring studies that have enormously benefited wealthy countries to Africa. The time for action is now, before the problem escalates, so that results can guide successful prevention programs...

Author: By Shona Dalal and Michelle D. Holmes | Title: Time for Cohort Studies in Africa | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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