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...night. Beyond these substantive objections to the current alcohol amnesty policy, we urge those in positions of authority to make the process of policy revision as transparent as possible. College and House administrators have sought student input on topics as varied as House renovations and environmental sustainability through the creation of committees and the use of online surveys to gauge student interest and collect responses. We urge those responsible for our alcohol policies to do the same. Similarly, once a policy revision is made, the administration should be as transparent as possible regarding its implementation. During the party grant controversy...
...Harvard Office for Sustainability’s ongoing efforts to engage people in thinking and acting on sustainability. Some of these include the Sustainability Pledge, which aims to garner over 8,000 signatures of people willing to personally commit to help Harvard reduce its GHG emissions, and the creation of Green Teams, which promote recycling, waste reduction, and sustainable measures at the graduate schools. “We’ve worked hard with the REP program to promote social marketing and peer-to peer marketing,” Gogan said. “We’re trying...
...great questions of human existence and reality.“No one writes poetry any longer,” Étienne writes, “bric-a-brac in an old hardware store.” While poetry is a commodity in our world, it is an organic creation, fundamental, “almost begging to be written” in Étienne’s. The poems in “King of a Hundred Horsemen” may be difficult to untangle, but the world they reveal makes it well worth the effort...
...Harvard began explicitly to explore its traditionally uneasy relationship to the arts, acknowledging that the University had long viewed the practice of the arts as most appropriately located outside the curriculum.”In April 1956, the Committee produced the Brown Report, nearly two years after its creation by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. Just like the current Task Force on the Arts, the Committee investigated the role of the arts in other college curriculums.Once published, the Report set off a number of college reforms which ranged from symbolic (changing the Department of Fine Arts...
...this week. Rangarajan cites a blast in the central Indian city of Kanpur in August as one, in which two people associated with a Hindu right-wing organization were killed while making explosives. In June, the Hindu nationalist political party Shiv Sena got much flak for calling for the creation of Hindu "suicide squads". "Islamic terrorism is on the rise in India and in order to counter Islamic terrorism, we should match it with Hindu terrorism," an unsigned editorial in the Shiv Sena's official newspaper said. Hindu right-wing organizations have been blamed for virulent anti-Christian violence...