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...four treasure troves of comic books, unique to the area and unseen by most Harvard students. And behind them lie four decades’ worth of history, mystery, and rivalry.THE INEXPLICABLE PILEThe most puzzling of Harvard’s comic book resources is paradoxically the easiest for students to access. It’s free to anyone with a Harvard ID, it has over 10,000 individual comic books, and it sits in the Quincy House Library (the Qube), waiting for perusal.In large white binders filling numerous shelves in an alcove of the Qube are thousands of comic books parked...
...Internet grows, the proliferation of blog and cable news has also led to an increase in access to information. Though these sources raise interesting new issues of accountability, they allow readers exposure to more international reporting from newspapers abroad along with instantaneous coverage provided by bloggers around the world. Furthermore, we can hope to see reporters financed by means outside of the traditional big media outlets. Innovative ventures (such as Pro Publica) which try to provide investigative reporting projects to the big media may become a part of the journalistic landscape in the future...
...provision of many different models and means of education helps to ensure that people have many different opportunities open to them. This fall, the University of Massachusetts hopes to bring the first online courses to China, pioneering a program has the potential to benefit thousands and greatly improve educational access...
Despite our overwhelming optimism for the program’s success and proliferation, we remain concerned about the possibility that contentious course material might be censored or altered—especially considering that the Chinese government regularly restricts access to certain sites it deems “subversive.” In this case, Chinese officials have promised not to censor the courses, but we are hesitant to trust them to hold to their word. Even recently, when China was bidding to host the Olympics, it indicated that it would improve the human rights situation within its borders...
...should be welcomed as a great addition to the campus and Harvard’s ever-widening and expanding academic community. Currently, the Harvard University Archives only saves certain theses depending on the honors grade that they receive, and theses that receive the cutoff grade and above are accessible through the Archives’ inconvenient closed-stack system. The Free Thesis Project provides researchers much easier access to all of Harvard’s senior theses, if students choose to put them on the site. Theses are accessible at any time on the Internet, and all senior theses...