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Some things are good in concept but awful in practice. Like “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” Sprite Remix, and Communism. Or Alcohol Edu, the “online prevention program” that all rising freshman were required to suffer through this year to teach us how not to kill ourselves by alcohol. A course which supposedly takes “2-3 hours to complete,” Alcohol Edu is so rife with technical errors and misleading information that it is more likely to be a complete waste of twice that amount...
...It’s strange to me how many people think it doesn’t happen.” But it does happen. “Saturday Night” sets out to prove that sexual assault needs to be addressed on a much larger scale. The concept behind the publication originated at Duke University back in 2003. For Harvard’s spin on the idea, editors teamed up with the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), and Saturday Night includes resource materials on the final pages. While each anonymous submission takes a unique approach...
Good is a concept that is at the same time is breathlessly simple and infinitely complex. Despite being a word that every toddler knows, we still have so many questions about good. Is good absolute? Can an evil action be good under certain circumstances? Can good exist without evil? Are different actions good for different people? What about the greater good? If we are to be good to our neighbors, who are our neighbors? The complexities pile on until good is no longer a four-letter word—it’s a treatise...
What do hotshot designers Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey and Job Smeets have in common? They all graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. The Dutch college and graduate program is a breeding ground for the high-concept work that's dominating industrial design. Students study in departments with esoteric names like Man and Living and Man and Identity. But for a little real-world experience, pupils can collaborate on projects with companies such as Nike and Swarovski...
...choose to travel, perform community service, conduct research, or even enroll in an intensive academic course. Abstractly, such an opportunity to focus intensely on one pursuit seems like a rare luxury, especially in comparison to the frenetic pace of the fall and spring semesters. And, to be fair, the concept has proven successful at a number of colleges such as MIT, Williams, and Oberlin—but only by virtue of a strong commitment, in terms of time, money, and effort, by faculty, administration, and students alike. At Harvard, some professional schools have a J-Term, but it is often...