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...future Harvard students abroad—not to mention for the student involved—if such a tragedy occurred far outweigh the benefits of approving travel to locations with strong State Department warnings. As it stands, Harvard’s restrictions are already among the loosest in academia. Yale, for instance, still refuses to acknowledge all travel to the West Bank and Gaza. Students shouldn’t demand the right to get exceptions from a policy that already stands head and shoulders above the rest. We applaud the College for striking the right balance between managing its liability...
...those post-war days, academia faced a real intellectual crisis, and it culminated in a no-holds-barred interrogation of why education matters to us, of how it was leading (sometimes astray) our best and brightest...
...Harvard Crimson: Did you feel pressured at all to choose a different career with both your parents in academia...
...comfortable taking this sort of stand, then he and others within the University should seek other ways to show that Harvard is serious about standing behind the civil rights of its students. As a first step, Summers and Dean Kagan could invite retired military officials, lawyers, and members of academia to join in a summit discussing the best means to overturn the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy...
Arguing that academia has become more “porous,” the report advocates fewer core divisions in light of the ways that different areas of study overlap, and also calls for students to have greater freedom in choosing their classes...