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...economic crisis looms, threatening the prospects of thousands of future financiers across campus, we arts majors must confess to feeling a little, well, smug. For the past several years we’ve girded our loins for a rocky post-collegiate existence. We’ve read Hemingway’s memoirs and prepared to go without meals for days at a time. We’ve joined Facebook groups proclaiming “I Picked a Major I Like, and One Day I Will Probably Be Living in a Box.” We’ve built...
...students returned to campus more than two weeks ago, the e-mail onslaught had already begun. But amidst club announcements and entryway meeting notifications, another, more troubling piece of mail arrived in each of our inboxes: a “Community Advisory” reporting an unarmed robbery in Cambridge Common...
...result of this attitude, Harvard services, intended to keep us safe, remain far under-utilized. In Dean Hammonds’ response to the three robberies, she reminded us of the Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP). From 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. (and 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday), volunteers remain on call to walk home any Harvard affiliate who dials their hotline. According to HUPD spokesman Steven Catalano, on average only 10-12 people request an escort each month—about two to three per week...
...night are not, in fact, entirely adept at keeping themselves safe. This is not to say that we should live our lives in constant fear of silent attackers. But if we hope to prevent further violence in the future, we must recognize the reality of safety on and near campus. Yes, it’s easy to blame the victims—until that victim...
Having been denied the right to puff in public buildings, workplaces and bars, staff and student smokers in Pennsylvania public colleges and universities now find themselves forced to leave campus property before lighting up. And they're fighting back. Opposition is mounting to a new ordinance banning smoking anywhere within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). As one of the most far-reaching prohibitions in the country, the ordinance forbids smoking both inside and outside campus buildings, in all resident halls and parking lots, and even on university-owned sidewalks. "It's one thing to stop smoking indoors...