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...much-hyped “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” begun on Monday by conservatives on college campuses across the country, was met with resistance by Harvard students. While Islamic students took reactive measures, Harvard’s right-wing groups showed little interest in supporting the controversial campaign. Islamo-Fascism awareness events—sponsored and organized by conservative pundit David Horowitz’s Freedom Center—were held at over 200 colleges, including Brown, Dartmouth, and Columbia. But the controversial week did not receive promotion from any group at Harvard. Harvard Republican Club President...
...meetings are part of a review process outlined by Boston to oversee the development of the 250-acre campus. The University has promised to devote $21 million to community benefits, though little progress has been made in fleshing out how those funds will be distributed. Harvard has already begun repairing sidewalks along North Harvard Street and Western Avenue and has promised to open an education center to provide free math and science tutoring by the spring. “We really need help from people and we need to form a working relationship with people who are part of that...
...Tango is associated with the urban environment, so it’s very much about people in transition. In many ways, it’s a metaphor for the way in which culture today is mobile.”Ultimately Bhabha hopes that the intellectual collaboration begun by “Tango!” will create a model for the University as a whole.“That notion of partnership, intellectual partnership, gives the metaphor of the crossroads of the Humanities Center a reality,” he says. “For us it?...
...Then, too, there's climate change. As occurred after Hurricane Katrina, the question of what role global warming might have played in the disaster arose before the fires had even begun to die down. While environmental scientists are careful not to blame the droughts or heat waves of any one season on climate change, the overwhelming majority of climate models point to more of these extreme conditions in the already dry Southwest as the planet warms. A study led by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and published in Science last year found that...
...frightening possibility is that the October wildfires may be only the start - not just of future fires in future seasons but of more to come this year. The Santa Ana winds have just begun and typically peak in the winter. What's more, there is not likely to be much relief from drought conditions. The National Weather Service predicts a La Niña pattern this winter, which occurs when sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean are cooler than usual. La Niña usually translates to dryer and hotter weather in the American South...