Word: applauding
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...while I applaud Harvard’s corporate efficiency, I question its just place as a guiding principle in the care of an entire community of people rather than as a mantra taught at a better-business seminar. Trivializing student life contributes to an atmosphere of hostility and resentment between the administration and the students—especially when the administration tries to deflect attention from its economics-driven decision to ignore undergrads by pretending its hands are tied by the greed of cable companies...
Those who applaud the ban suggest it will model healthy behavior, and many celebrated the decision as a victorious springboard towards improving the health of students in southern California. Lack of soda in the schools’ vending machines, they argue, will reduce consumption of the unhealthy, sugar-and-sodium-laden drink, avail other beverage choices and change the way students think about food. But the change in no way prevents students from bringing soda from home or from consuming soda on campus. Many students in the urban Los Angeles school district already opt to eat off campus at lunch...
...decimate an entire community. Harvard has a responsibility to provide all students with the medical care they require to remain healthy and active. Adequate health insurance should not only be available to those whose parents can afford it, but should be provided to all by the University. We therefore applaud the decision of the University Health Services (UHS) to supply prescription drug coverage to all 20,000 full-time students this year...
...Office of Admissions and Financial Aid announced last month that it would assume full control over campus tours for prospective students. The decision effectively eliminates the Crimson Key Society’s previous role as an exclusive provider of tour guides. We applaud the admissions office’s decision and expect improvement in both the quality of the tours and in the diversity of the tour guides...
...applaud the attention being given to child abductions. It is high time that we are outraged by these crimes and take steps to stop them. This problem is real, no matter how few children are involved. The many children on public assistance or otherwise "lost" is a different issue. To suggest that kidnappings are getting too much of the attention does not help and, worse, it could lessen chances that law enforcement, communities and the media will use every resource available to find abducted children. LAURA KOTZ Greensboro...