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...mean that all the reforms Summers initiated will now be put on hold? I don’t see why that should be the case. From what I can tell (mostly from reading The Crimson and talking to my old professors and current undergrads), there’s more consensus around what needs to be done than all the headlines about Harvard In Turmoil would suggest. If Bok can capitalize on his reservoir of personal good will with the faculty and deep knowledge of academic governance to make everyone feel consulted, I think he can take the best of what...
...fetus between 20-30 weeks. Then there is the slippery slope argument, raised by pro-choice advocates who are concerned that banning partial-birth abortion is a step towards restricting abortion altogether. As mentioned earlier, the abortion question is tough because it requires policymakers to come to a consensus as to when life begins. But by the fifth month, when the child has developed limbs, facial features, and is sensitive to pain, the argument that the woman should have the privacy to decide what she wants to do with her body – when, in fact, the child...
...snubbed Spielberg before—notably in 1985 for his similarly controversial film “The Color Purple.” I think “Crash” will be rewarded instead; it is an uplifting film about racial reconciliation that is likely to inspire easy consensus...
Harvard, now more then ever, is in need of consensus-building—particularly in the choice of its next president. As discussion inevitably turns from lamenting or deriding our current president to thinking seriously about his successor, we hope that the make-up of the presidential search committee will reflect this need...
Finally and most importantly, a faculty senate would only further retard progress at Harvard. On this page and on campus, a consensus has developed that if Harvard is to maintain its preeminence in academia, it must institute broad, progressive changes, something that has proven to be very difficult at an institution with a tremendous amount of inertia, history, and tradition. A University senate with more than symbolic power would only be an impediment to progress, slowing down the implementation of important decisions so they can be discussed at length by faculty members with already busy schedules—and that...