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...Tuesday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to table free speech. At least, that’s what anthropology and African-American studies professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 would have you believe. Matory, who has previously complained about academia’s pro-Israel bias, introduced a motion at last week’s Faculty meeting calling on FAS to reaffirm its commitment to free speech and tolerance of minority views. The Faculty, however, seeing through Matory’s ploy, decided to table the resolution (a sufficient quorum was not present to defeat...
...past, voters would learn about political issues from a candidate in a suit—not a gopher in a suit. Enter blogging: websites and political blogs such as why08.org and VoteGopher.com allow viewers to compare candidates, mostly without bias and definitely with some funny twists. William M. Ruben ’10 launched VoteGopher.com last month, pledging: “We dig. You decide.” The site educates voters by presenting election platforms cleverly illustrated with gophers. But Ruben’s vision hasn’t played out entirely—the site does the digging...
...them valid, all of them placing the blame somewhere different. I am far more intrigued, however, by the different responses of my schoolmates in the days that followed. As a black student, I know that what I say about race will be understood by many to carry a particular bias on this issue. But the truth is that this issue does concern race: not because of the large police presence at a party hosted by a black student group, and not because a black student is talking about it. It is a racial issue because of who threw the party...
...broader initiative,” Gallagher said. The Shell announcement also coincides with a University effort to expand cross-school programs in the social sciences. Sponsorship by oil companies has aroused controversy at schools such as the University of California, Berkeley over whether the gifts might bias research. Hogan said the Shell gift would avoid that issue because much of Harvard’s funding in this area comes from other sources, such as Repsol YPF and the Apache Corporation, oil and gas companies with “a very different set of immediate interests...
...Full disclosure: This reporter is a proud Kirkland resident, but fails to see any inaccuracy or bias in his description of K-Force’s turnout at the River...