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...That afternoon, Jones poured out nearly a thousand cups of Kool Aid laced with cyanide and, in an excruciating parody of the Eucharist, told the faithful to take and drink. They were committing, he said, "an act of revolutionary suicide, protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." In the detritus of the ensuing carnage, a note was "If nobody understands, it matters not, I am ready to die now. Darkness settle on Jonestown on its last day on earth...
...addressing the underlying problem of dishonesty shows that the College administration has chosen to address the symptoms and not the illness. To actually address the core of the problem, Harvard should adopt a simple academic honor code stating two things: that the student neither gave nor received inappropriate aid on an assignment or exam, and that the student did not misrepresent his or her work or commit plagiarism.It may sound trite, but it is important to ensure honesty and trust in the undergraduate community, where Harvard students learn and live. Although individual professors’ policies on academic honesty...
...College students with pre-college drug offenses would again be eligible for federal financial aid.But students with offenses during college still forfeit their funds from the government—and a spate of drug-related incidents earlier this year at Harvard has raised questions about the inviolability of financial aid at the College.Opponents of the federal drug policy want the HEA to be amended further.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the group Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), challenged the constitutionality of the HEA this past March, claiming that the amended version still offended the Fifth Amendment?...
...that means he’s a leader, and in a way that will help our people,” Lussier said. Meat lived with his family on the reservation of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Tribe in Minnesota. An economics concentrator, Meat had planned to return there to aid in the community’s economic development, said Erica A. Scott ’06, another friend and past NAHC president. When Scott arrived at Harvard as a freshman, Meat—just one year ahead of her—became a mentor and friend. Meat was a role model...
...checkbooks. Iran might be the most sensitive issue, but it is not the only one. With oil at $70 a barrel, Russian egos have become as inflated as their reserve surplus, which now amounts to almost $60 billion last year. With part of that money, the Kremlin is contributing aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, even when the Palestinians miserably failed to condemn the suicide attack in Israel during Passover. This approach (also favored, alas, by Iran) actively undermines the Western funding freeze designed to force Hamas to reject violence and recognize Israel. At the same time, the Kremlin...