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...Monday morning will continue to reverberate across the entire country for a long time to come. At colleges and universities, the magnitude and nature of the massacre at Tech has struck a particularly raw nerve. Here at Harvard we know the pain of losing one of our own; we cannot begin to imagine the devastation of losing 33 all at once. More horrifying than simply the heartbreaking loss of life is the sense of violation that comes with this type of unconscionable act. Much like the 1999 Columbine shootings that occurred in the familiar hallways, cafeteria, and library...
...achieved with internationals alone. “We get Americans to come to every event,” Balciunas points out, and it’s critical that they do. Without creating contacts and relationships between Americans and internationals, Woodbridge’s current leaders believe that the Society cannot serve its purpose. In Gong’s words, Woodbridge is “an international society, not a foreign society.”Balciunas emphasizes the need for the meaningful social interaction that he believes the Society’s events encourage. “We don?...
...eliminate a judge’s ability to fit the punishment to the crime. This institutionalizes ignoring many nuances and mitigating circumstances that may reduce the punishment for crimes. Judges have frequently criticized these laws, which they say impair their ability to do their jobs. Furthermore, since the law cannot anticipate every possible situation, in some infamous situations mandatory sentencing requirements can lead to punishments that are wildly disproportionate from the offense. The example most familiar to Harvard students is a Massachusetts law that adds at least two years to a drug sentence if the violation occurred within...
Keep committees and rules to a minimum, but require periodic reviews of course goals and effectiveness. Certainly, we cannot have so few rules that “anything goes,” but let’s use compact committees of faculty, responsible administrators, and student advisers to work out core principles and allocate supportive resources—and then leave the details to the creativity of instructors and departments. The existing Core Curriculum has been much resented by students and faculty, because new courses are approved through a vast spider-like apparatus of committees, and existing courses are rarely...
...alienation cannot explain such a callous indifference for the human life and the human community which he so savagely and so easily tore apart, using nothing more than 9 and 22 millimeter handguns...