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...Harvard a wonderful place? We have waffles with alma mater seals, Professor Sandel, gates that invite you to “grow in wisdom,” and, of course, a deep commitment to equal opportunity. That last ideal, in particular, permeates every aspect of campus policy, from need-blind admissions to anonymous grading. But few initiatives are as important as one undertaken by the Accessible Education Office...
...backdrop of the era,” he says. Davis doesn’t remember any drug busts or police conspiracies to break up campus happenings, and he believes that enforcement was “pretty laissez-faire.” “The University basically turned a blind eye to it,” says Davis. Beginning in 1967, freshman proctors were instructed to remind their charges about the punitive consequences of drug and alcohol use, but Victoria W. Wulsin ’75 does not remember being warned. “But maybe that?...
...future,” he says.“We didn’t intend it to be used for faculty to catch 18 year olds with Coronas in their hands,” says Hughes.Other colleges around the country, however, are not turning a blind eye to the power of Facebook to crack down on underage drinking and other illegal activity.Four students at Northern Kentucky University were “fined, put on one year probation, and were forced to attend a class about the dangers of binge drinking” after they were found to have broken rules...
...used a simple graphic device: it showed Muhammad surrounded by two women in full Muslim garb, their eyes peering out from an oblong space in their black chadors. And on Muhammad's face there was an oblong too, blacking out his eyes. The point was that Islam has a blind spot when it comes to women's freedom. Crude but powerful: exactly what a political cartoon is supposed...
...track down the bad guys as much as anybody. But government officials have to get a warrant before they start wiretapping! Klein surmises that a majority of Americans would favor the National Security Agency's bugging program "if its details were declassified and made known." Is he advocating blind trust in Big Brother, or does he know something the rest of us don't? Maybe someone should be tapping Klein's phone. Philip Duval Hamburg, Germany...