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...Harvard, Kohlberg united the traditionally detached Cambridge and Longwood tech transfer offices into one operation, the Office of Technology Development (OTD). “He clearly changed it from a fiefdom sort of scenario into more of a university-wide phenomenon,” says George M. Church, a professor of genetics at the Medical School...
...Fryer’s work ethic has impressed his colleagues, and he remains unfailingly modest about the wide scope of his research, saying he only wants to do this job well...
...progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy proposals, each promising mankind salvation through self-denial...
...persistent invocation of the precious term “dialogue” for a bona fide invitation to frank discussion. Of course, he was wrong—“dialogue” is a vacuity hiding behind a pretty-sounding facial meaning. Such terms have blossomed into wide, unexamined usage at Harvard in our times, and my classmates can be thankful they are graduating from this realm of self-contradicting doublespeak: Where “dialogue” means the neutering of conversation for sensitivity’s sake, and where the premium placed on “inclusivity?...
...Specifically, we hope that while the new curriculum is being developed the Core is cracked open to include many departmental alternatives.A modified Core can only be averted if the Faculty takes control of General Education’s implementation. Its introduction should involve informative feedback from students, lively campus-wide debate, and frequent evaluation. The Faculty cannot simply wash its hands of College education after four years of argument...