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...attempt to combat accusations of grade inflation at Harvard, the Office of the Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences released a new set of standards last year that was applied to the awarding of honors degrees to beginning with the Class...
...regroups for the next decade: that for the Democratic Party to get out its voters and mobilize its power, it must take Democratic stands and nominate Democratic candidates. For future reference, this means that the party’s presidential nominee should not support the use of unemployment to combat inflation, should not support a foreign policy of military intervention, and should work as energetically to defend the consumer and the workingman from their corporate predators as to protect the vitality of American industry. Democrats who respond to the “mandate” of the 1980 election...
...classroom techniques employed by many of its professors. As one student said of the case studies many K-School professors employ, “In all our cases, there are just white males in the government, but all the women are welfare recipients.” To combat just that sort of subtle discrimination, a student group has recommended a mandatory day-long seminar for faculty on “institutional racism and sexism.” We urge the school to adopt this suggestion—and one that it hire a full-time recruiter for minority students. Each...
...many of the safety measures demanded by students in 1980 have become a reality. Members of Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) teach a “Rape Aggression and Defense Program” which, according to the HUPD website, “empowers female students, faculty, and staff to combat various types of assaults by providing them with realistic self-defense tactics and techniques...
...task of caring for the living, never mind counting the dead. According to the Iraq Body Count project, the most frequently cited source, at least 38,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since May 1, 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that "major combat operations" had ended. More controversially, a study in the British medical journal Lancet in November 2004 put the toll at more than 100,000 since the invasion. Both studies say more than 4 in 10 of those deaths are attributable to U.S. forces...