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...lacked the administrative funds that only varsity sports teams enjoyed, the HRFC depended on creative housing solutions for away games.“We couldn’t afford hotels,” said Keith W. Cooper ’83, president of the team in 1983 and the current president of the Harvard rugby alumni association. “We’d generally try to find a girl sorority and try to make friends.”When asked to recount tales from their college years, alumni were close-mouthed about their youthful antics, replying their stories were...
...Harvard much more aware of harassment when she retired in 2003 than when she first arrived in in 1983.Few sexual harassment cases have been publicized at since the mid-1980s, but Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Director Sarah Rankin said that harassment still happens.According to Rankin, current cases remain private because the University’s sexual harassment policies have improved so students can resolve their problems within the system rather than outside of it.The Faculty of Arts and Sciences now publishes an official set of procedures for harassment complaints, and there are designated sexual harassment officers...
...there is no evidence that lowering the drinking age will result in healthier or safer drinking habits among young people, according to Harvard’s current Director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, Ryan Travia...
...Harvard’s campus.Another hot topic in national politics this year was stem cell research. Under President Bush, the religious beliefs of a sector of the population had too great of an impact on scientific policy. Under Obama’s administration and with the backing of the current Congress, embryonic stem cell research is permitted to be publicly funded once more—a decision we wholeheartedly applauded. We see enormous potential for a more amenable government view of stem cell research and are steadfast in the belief that using stem cells will help us find cures...
...answer this, we need some history. Today’s departments didn’t always exist in their current form. Most of them coalesced late in the nineteenth century, as many U.S. universities shed their religious underpinnings and picked up the German style of higher education. Departments, in turn, were linked to the emergence of modern disciplines. It’s easy to track the founding of disciplines. Just check the date of the major academic journals: the Political Science Quarterly (founded 1886), American Anthropologist (1888), The American Historical Review (1895), and so on. Departments were invented to house...