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...sleeper.”In Government 1093/Biological Sciences 60, “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature,” Sandel and Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton acheived this collegiality. “It was a happy medium where they could understand each other’s perspective and let us try to resolve it,” Douglas T. McClure ’06 says of the interaction between his professors. However, both Heinzerling and McClure say they would have liked to hear more of Melton’s opinions during...
...society comes from two main sources—the need to add a broader point to news stories and thus give them more impact, and the focus on the female sex as a whole triggered by the women’s rights movement.After four years on The Crimson, I understand the desire to try to explain subtle social changes to readers. One of the jobs of a journalist is to identify and explore societal undercurrents, especially if they are difficult to discern. But overzealously applied, this aim leads to the inflation or wholesale creation of trends in an effort...
...cannot—and must not—be is a merely charismatic and charming fundraiser who leaves each tub on its own bottom and lets each faculty do as it pleases. Harvard deserves more from its leader.We also hope that the committee seeks out a president who will understand the central role that undergraduates play on campus and prioritize the College accordingly. We had hoped that the search committee would include students and faculty to inject this urgency into the deliberative process. Students and faculty have, disappointingly, been relegated to advisory committees with limited roles, but we hope...
...hope I’ve learned from Harvard is that becoming a global citizen is not an academic endeavor. A life, no more than an education, should not be a “business” or a series of cost-benefit analyses. At Harvard, we should try to understand these prevailing currents of pre-professionalism and money-oriented careerism, not submit to them, let alone allow our university to be shaped by them. Here, we should learn how to be, not what to do.Rebecca D. O’Brien ’06, who was a Crimson associate managing...
...declined by 25 percent in recent years. More than 50 percent have been with the University for at least six years.Common MisconceptionsSome advocate an agreement that is comparable to the one reached between Harvard and the union representing our custodial workers last fall. It’s important to understand that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)contract was designed as a long-term agreement that will bring the hourly wages paid to Harvard custodians back in line with the custodial wages paid by other universities in the Boston area. The same wage gap does not apply to the case...