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...things can happen when people are plucked out of lawless neighborhoods and put somewhere else, criminologists have found. In the more hopeful scenario, people who parachute into better neighborhoods commit less violent crime. That theory posits that places like New Orleans, where poverty is extreme, are inherently crimogenic--which is to say, they produce deviant behavior, just like alcohol. Gangs are also crimogenic. When people leave gangs, they are generally less violent than they were as gang members. In neighborhoods and gangs, in other words, violence--and peace--is contagious...
...said that what we had coming was an opportunity--though not one we would want in a million years--to serve the citizens in the time of their greatest need. So you ratchet up all your actions and energies to a close-to-superhuman level. You have to commit to keep them up, because you have a huge number of things going on simultaneously. The best analogy I can give is that we're at war and the enemy is just below the horizon. If we don't do each one of these things as quickly...
...Many of the same people that so vehemently scorn Barry Bonds and Major League Baseball are encouraging the overmedication of their children with drugs like Adderall. These find a sense of worth vicariously through their children, instilling the competitive mentality that has, in large part, led students to commit these abuses. The problem is that these parents are not willing to admit that their children are simply not smart enough to get accepted into the elite, Ivy-League Universities they dreamed about sending them to. When President Bush declared in his State of the Union address some years ago that...
...illness. To actually address the core of the problem, Harvard should adopt a simple academic honor code stating two things: that the student neither gave nor received inappropriate aid on an assignment or exam, and that the student did not misrepresent his or her work or commit plagiarism.It may sound trite, but it is important to ensure honesty and trust in the undergraduate community, where Harvard students learn and live. Although individual professors’ policies on academic honesty are often outlined in syllabi, and the eight lines in the student handbook are better than nothing, Harvard lacks a cohesive...
...evidence means no crime occurred. But according to Wilson, only two out of 35 rape cases that occurred in Middlesex County—which includes Harvard—had been supported by DNA evidence. Many women in attendance expressed concern about a culture which condones athletes that commit crimes against women. Association of Black Harvard Women Action Chair Marisa S. Williamson ’08 said she feels that when athletes are in a group together, they behave in a more daring manner. “I hear team members say things with one another that they wouldn?...