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...report also cited diversity as a potential barrier to the success of an honor code.“An honor-code community must share a ‘matrix of common belief and purpose’ that underlies the code, and a homogeneous community is likelier to reach a broader agreement about this matrix,” Melendez wrote in his 1985 study.But David L. Tannenwald ’08, a transfer student from Brown University, strongly disagreed with the notion that diversity presents an impediment to an honor code system.“I think there are certain values...
...Connections that used to require letters or phone calls can now be maintained through Facebook photo albums or profile checking in the wee hours of a Saturday morning. These social networks, in some sense our social networks, are changing just as quickly and substantially as the bigger ones with broader focuses like “Harvard” or “ping-pong...
...While a broader rankings system has a clear audience and purpose—informing consumers in an important niche where private enterprise has failed—a nationwide database of students has no defined purpose and carries a bevy of risks. The Department of Education should implement a ranking of all U.S. colleges, but it should table its proposal for a database of students...
...Senate official working hard for an immigration bill said the massive demonstrations by largely Hispanic participants earlier this spring "helped with some members" - those not from safe districts, those who understand the broader political picture and take a long view - and hurt among some in safe districts. But "the work stoppage just hurts the effort," this official added. So it looks like, while the organizers may succeed at generating political pressure on Congress to keep working on a new immigration law, they may also make it harder for lawmakers to finish...
...That's where we should be looking. I know people sometimes see that negotiations are appeasement, but I don't see it that way. It's a way of delivering tough messages about what's expected and at the same time making it possible to develop a broader relationship on a variety of cultural issues, on trade issues and on some diplomatic issues...