Word: apr.
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Carolina Central University student by three Duke lacrosse players, I am not surprised that Brad Hinshelwood would address the “turmoil” on Duke’s campus in Harvard’s student newspaper (“Duke Scandal Raises Issues,” sports, Apr. 4), just as it has been covered in our student newspaper, local newspapers, and national newspapers like The New York Times. However, Hinshelwood’s piece caught my attention in particular because of its bias and skewed assumptions about Duke athletics that only an outsider would make. Hinshelwood assumes...
...editors: Mark Adomanis’ comment, “Foreign Affairs” (Apr. 3), was alarming and contradictory on its own terms. Adomanis contends that “the world is too competitive a place to have students wasting a quarter of their college years” on study abroad. But given that global competition, don’t internationally-educated Americans more easily compete for foreign contracts and visitors? At a time when misperceptions of the United States abound, won’t international friendships and human understanding better position our country to triumph in ongoing ideological battles...
...article “Donor at Center of Artifacts Storm” (news, Apr. 6) is certainly a relevant subject for Harvard, given its sponsorship of the Shelby White-Leon Levy Fund for Archaeological Publication...
...editors: Re: “Faculty Approves Secondary Fields,” news, Apr. 5. I was genuinely surprised to see the faculty approve secondary fields for Harvard undergraduates. Secondary fields strike at the underlying premise of Harvard students’ education: that they should be students of the world and not of select disciplines. A discipline is a perspective. It is meant to be a tool or lens, with which we decipher and study the world around us—it is not to be studied exclusively in itself. No wonder, Harvard’s long-time insistence...
...Cornell sits at 14-15 after dropping a pair of one-run games to St. Bonaventure on Apr. 5. The losses broke Cornell’s three-game winning streak, and the Big Red will look to return to its winning ways against Dartmouth on Saturday before meeting the Crimson...