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...juggling three potential concentrations.“I definitely wish I had more time,” said Schoenfeld, who is trying choose between Economics, Government, and Psychology.Thanks to a new policy adopted by the Faculty on Tuesday, Schoenfeld and her classmates will be the last students forced to commit to a concentration with only eight courses under their academic belts.The legislation, which pushes the concentration choice deadline back to the middle of sophomore year, has two major implications for the structure of students’ education.First, the move requires many departments to overhaul their year-long sophomore tutorials, forcing...
...obstacles to silence survivors’ voices.Although it may be comforting to argue, as some have suggested, that such a violent act could not and does not happen at Harvard, such assertions are fallacious, dangerous, and insensitive. Members of high-profile athletic programs are not the only students who commit rape. If it were that simple, there would be no high-profile athletic programs, and rape on college campuses would be far less prevalent. In 2002, the Harvard University Police Department received 32 reports of “forcible sexual offenses” (and given that over 80 percent...
...military in time to help quell civil disorder, the initial denial that an insurgency was the heart of the opposition to occupation, alienation of allies who could have helped in a more robust way to rebuild Iraq, and the continuing failure of the other agencies of our government to commit assets to the same degree as the Defense Department. My sincere view is that the commitment of our forces to this fight was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions--or bury the results...
...Home educators no doubt have a heightened sense of parental responsibility. While critics dismiss them as oddballs, no one could accuse these parents of taking the easy option. By rejecting school, they commit to a plan that will diminish their earning power and personal freedom for years to come. "There's nothing more artificial in the whole world than a classroom," says Craig Smith, a homeschooling father of eight in Palmerston North, New Zealand. His and wife Barbara's experience mirrors that of many families: having spent the first year or two of home education trying to duplicate the classroom...
...asked the individual if he owned the vehicle and he said he did not. The officer then observed what appeared to be urine inside the motor vehicle. Caleb Vogel, 19, of Cambridge, MA, was then placed under arrest and charged with breaking and entering a vehicle with intent to commit a felony and malicious damage to a motor vehicle...