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...wasn’t like undergraduates went around fearful,” Halberstam says. “We didn’t think Harvard would crumble.”A BITTER WINTERAfter he was indicted for contempt of the Senate, Kamin took refuge in Canadian academia for 14 years. By 1968, the Red Scare had cooled down, and Princeton University hired him as chair of its psychology department.But even after Harvard’s book was closed on the McCarthy era, the fallout continues to bother its victims.“I am deeply grateful to the many Harvard faculty...
...Crimson.“It wasn’t until really the middle of my junior year that I finally grew up to know what I was missing, and began taking classes seriously, and began doing well,” Rosenthal says.Rosenthal was too busy uncovering political threats to academia to take advantage of his classes: he was the editor of a special section dedicated to exposing intellectual persecution during McCarthyism.“We liked to think then that by assembling these stories we were able to contribute to the ultimate sense of outrage that ended the witch hunts...
...School Dean Jay O. Light both held their posts in an interim capacity before Summers made their appointments permanent. McCartney assumed the post of acting dean last July after taking over from Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, who served as dean for only three years before stepping down to return to academia. “We’re really at an interesting point in our history. There are a lot of exciting opportunities that await us,” said McCartney, also holds the Lesser chair in early childhood development. “I have enjoyed the work. I plan...
...Center for Internet and Society, Jonathan L. Zittrain, wrote in an e-mail that “trying to catch [plagiarism] mechanically through websites like TurnItIn.com is demeaning to everyone involved.” “We should see plagiarism as a signal of the overall health of academia and act to solve the problem fundamentally,” he added.A HOYA HURRAHOn the other hand, the student-faculty Honor Council at Georgetown University, which has been using TurnItIn on a trial basis since the spring semester of 2002, gives a thumbs up to the software.The graduate assistant...
Self-publishing is fairly uncommon in academia, where published work is an important measure of scholarship and promotion potential...