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...that takes online courses through Harvard Extension School (HES). The Distance Education Program (DEP), started in 1997, caters to adults who wish to continue their education. Of the 600 course offerings this year at HES, 75 are available via the Internet. Although the Distance Program does not confer degrees, two certificate programs—Environmental Management and Applied Science—can be completed online. Several DEP courses—including CSCI E-2, “Bits,” and GOVT E-1045, “Justice”—are the same classes that students...
Even if moderate drinking does confer health benefits, which it probably does, they are rather modest--certainly not stronger than the effect of small daily doses of aspirin on heart health. Indeed, according to Dr. Ira Goldberg, a preventive-medicine expert at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, the effect may be more in line with the apparent cardioprotective benefit of eating a modest portion of nuts each day. Nuts, of course, aren't as sexy as alcohol...
Parental involvement requirements are not only ineffective; they are also dangerous. Teenagers unable to confer with their parents must secure a court waiver of parental consent, called a “judicial bypass.” This process almost invariably requires two to four weeks to complete. After the first trimester—when a delay of only a few days can vastly ”increase the risks involved in the procedure,” according to the American Medical Association—a month-long postponement is hardly conscionable...
...however, receive any public funding. To suggest that state funding should be given to an agency that discriminates against homosexuals in the name of religious freedom would be to sanction the very discriminatory policy that the state law seeks to eradicate. Rather, we feel that Massachusetts should only confer the license for adoption services to the Church, but divorce public money from the Charities’ activities. While our consideration of this licensing issue has focused around the practical empirical impact on children, Governor Romney, like Archbishop O’Malley, has framed this issue around freedom of religion. Within...
...members discussed potential reasons for the increase in the number of student groups in recent years. One possible explanation raised at the meeting was that faculty members have been willing to sign up as advisers for a number of student groups with the assurance that doing so would not confer any responsibilities. Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the chair of the UC’s Student Activities Committee (SAC) and a CCL member, said after the meeting that he did not see the rising number of student groups as a problem. “Students should be able...