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...smart, funny, and attractive.” This should be combined with a “fearless but realistic” outlook towards her surroundings. Her male counterpart should be an “everyday guy” whose quick wit will be his “mental security blanket,” enabling the duo to plow through dangerous situations. His relationship with his co-host should be at a “safe best friend distance” while showing “the tiniest affection” towards...
...European-descended Americans on the Native American population, for every conscious death that came in war, ten were a consequence of the diseases that came to North America with the European immigrants. There are fragmentary accounts of a kind of early biological warfare. You know, let's wrap a blanket around somebody who has smallpox and then encourage some other people to use that blanket. But the vast majority of the suffering that was visited on the Native American population as the Europeans came was not a plan or an attack, it was in many ways a coincidence that...
Since the start of fall semester, Harvard has been operating under blanket travel restrictions based on of the State Department’s travel warnings. If a country is on the list, no matter the reasons or the nuances of the travel warning itself, Harvard will give neither money for study abroad nor credit for programs completed independently in that country. While this method of assessing risk certainly reduces Harvard’s liability with respect to international travel, we students are left to question the seriousness of Harvard’s commitment to providing us with a diverse...
There are too many reasonable exceptions to Harvard’s blanket policies to list them all. Algeria may be an acutely dangerous country for Americans who look and sound a specific way, but for a Harvard student from Morocco, or with family from Morocco, for instance, the equation is completely different. Within countries like Israel, there are dangerous places and there are places where life is almost completely normal. The fact that Harvard students are allowed to travel to the Indian side of Kashmir, yet are banned from studying at universities within Israel proper betrays the extent to which...
...bottom line is that safe travelers can study abroad in a broad range of locales. Schools like Yale and New York University already recognize this. They ban students from traveling to dangerous areas within other countries instead of imposing blanket bans on countries themselves. The OIP and the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC) must either conform to these more reasonable and widely-adopted standards for international travel or provide a transparent explanation for why they will...