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This week the Institute of Politics (IOP) began a study group on abortion entitled, “Abortion: The Legal and Political Landscape.” In an e-mail sent out to students urging them to attend, the study group’s chair, Bolek Z. Kabala ’03, who is also a Crimson editor, wrote, “Tentative plans right now are to invite two speakers, a convicted abortion clinic bomber and someone as far to the Left on the issue as possible.” Abortion is at a critical juncture in America today...
Most importantly, students should attend the study group in order to talk amongst themselves about this difficult issue. The one piece of rhetoric that Kabala was right to invoke was that which reminded us that abortion rights could be overturned in the very near future. That fact alone should convince Harvard students of the necessity of discussing abortion and picking apart the strands of the debate in an honest and open manner...
...despite its best intentions, MBB has fallen short of expectations. In some years, the initiative represents little more than a mish-mash of professors from different departments who come together infrequently to attend seminars they promptly forget. As a former MBB student, I attended the mandatory junior seminar program at the beginning of this year where one professor laughed in my face when I asked whether any collaborative research across department lines was being attempted as a result of the program. This isn’t to say that the program doesn’t have potential; however, its true...
Although never a refugee herself, Bangladeshi-born Khan knows the experience of being uprooted from a war-torn homeland. She first left home to attend high school in Ireland, a move she calls ironic since she left civil war in Bangladesh only to find herself in another strife-riven nation. After university in the U.K. - where she met her German-born economist husband - she studied law at Harvard. It was there that she developed an interest in human-rights issues. She has since spent her entire career in the field - until now at the U.N. refugee agency. Her Amnesty term...
Justin A. McCarty, Class of 1996, left Harvard College after three months to attend the New England Conservatory to study double-bass, but has since graduated and now works alongside the elder McCarty as a TF in the chemistry department...