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...Carnegie Report and others like it are searching hard for ways to rebuild the sense of community that should characterize the campus -- and society at large. The report prescribes a "Campus Compact" that universities must adopt if they are to restore peace to the ivory tower. The compact embraces principles of justice, openness and discipline that are meant to form the foundation of a "community of learning." But no seminar or speech or required reading will change overnight the attitudes embedded in a culture that children absorb while growing up. Nor will they easily break the cycle of hate...
While EAS Co-Chair Brian R. Trelstad '91 says he would also like to see an undergraduate concentration in environmental science, others say they doubt Harvard will adopt such a plan any time soon...
...Adopt-a-beach. Thousands of volunteers will hit the California coastline from San Diego to Oregon, to clear litter and refuse off the beaches...
...time has come for Harvard students to adopt stronger, more visible and more disruptive tactics to persuade Harvard to sell its remaining stock in companies that do business in South Africa...
Last week someone finally took the plunge. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski uttered the dreaded words, higher taxes, as the solution to the deficit. "Adopt my plan to fix the deficit, or come up with a better one," he challenged. In addition to an increase in some excise levies and in income tax rates for the wealthiest Americans, Rostenkowski called for a one-year moratorium on the indexing of tax brackets to inflation (a Reagan- era reform that protects taxpayers from being hit with ever higher rates...