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Bizarre though some of his opinions may seem, it is absolutely critical that Mack's academic freedom be defended and that his tenure be preserved. Academic freedom would be a hollow and meaningless construct if it were employed to guarantee only those opinions which are commonly considered valid. The possibility of alien abduction may be hard to fathom, but it is precisely in this extreme case that Harvard's commitment to freedom of thought needs to be staunchest...
...compensate for what many see as the lack of formalized dating, the construct of Having Coffee has been institutionalized. "Coffee is not quite a date--it's somewhere in between," says Elie M. Finegold '95-'96. "It bridges the gap between the academic world, where Harvard students are comfortable, and the social world, where they are not. Coffee is the centerpiece of sober interaction at Harvard." Coffee is liminal; you can ask the cute guy in seminar Out For Coffee with impunity, since it can be cloaked, ostensibly, in the guise of continued academic discourse. The experience can be just...
...houses where smoking is not such an issue of contention, administrators might be slow to construct definite housing guidelines. However, as demonstrated in Currier, smoking can result in major policy adjustments. In such cases, smokers will have to submit to the conditions of their non-smoking neighbors...
...terms of innovative teaching techniques, Franklin is best known for the "zap labs" that she created for students of Physics 15b and 15c. Students are given large red tool-boxes filled with wires, batteries, clippers and soldering irons and are asked to construct various electronic circuits and devices. The labs are meant to teach students basic electronics through a series of hands-on experiments...
...that chemical weapons have not been used in a major attack before. The ingredients for making them are available commercially and can be put together by almost any competent chemist. Muslim zealots, for example, are increasingly a younger generation of angry men who have the education and sophistication to construct weapons their fathers and uncles never dreamed...