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...Robin Crotty, and together they founded Fiat Productions, a Catholic theater Company. Ty’s involvement in religion was also coupled with a commitment to charity. Ty met Priest Chaplain Bruce Teague when he interned at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. When his internship was over, Ty chose to stay on as a volunteer continuing to treat patients and developing a computer program to document the hospital’s spiritual care program. Teague calls Ty a “medical humanist.” “Michael was not only a true scientist. He also cared...
...When he chose to write his senior thesis on the Zimbabwean government’s manipulation of the media, Amar C. Bakshi ’06 never thought he’d be a target of the repressive regime himself.In late December, he traveled to the country’s capital to conduct research. But Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization alleged that he was “taking government information.” As he attempted to leave the country, intelligence officers pulled him off a plane and threw him in jail for five days...
...permission only because of a mistake. And, he decided, it was high time the mistake was corrected. On Monday, the GSA took its case to CHUL, asking for permission to stuff information into February registration packets. But the committee ignored the real issue of bigotry and selective enforcement, and chose instead to quickly devise a new system—a second packet to be handed out at registration and specifically set aside for student groups. While the second packet solution will allow the GSA to get its message across, it does not address the root of the problem, which...
...Ostensibly, this goal of fostering global responsibility informs the structure of Harvard’s curriculum, the breadth of its extracurricular spheres, and even the makeup of its undergraduate classes. While Kirby surely meant to imply that learning is a duty, it strikes me as somewhat telling that he chose to articulate it so sternly as a “business.” Is it a good thing that Harvard is mixing business with pleasure, leisure, and lecture? And can this new corporate model of a university actually teach us to be “citizens of the world...
...this past February, when University President Lawrence H. Summers decided to resign, suggest that the Board is still little more than a “rubber stamp,” in the words of Harvard historian Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70. Six days after Summers says he chose to step down, and just hours before his resignation was made public, several overseers said they had yet to be informed about the change at Mass. Hall...