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...lobbying for the creation of a University-wide office that would supervise the grievance process.Meanwhile, a growing list of women began to come forward, with complaints ranged from inappropriate comments to what constituted, according to Government Professor Robert D. Putnam, “a crime.”A DEMAND FOR DISSOCIATIONSeniors in the class of 1984 returned to Harvard in the fall to another shock. Popular Government Professor Jorge I. Dominguez had been implicated in the second sexual harassment scandal in two years—this time, the case involved a junior faculty member and a female graduate student.Unlike...
...drive students to the convenience of owning their own machines. Eventually, a growing interest in personal computing led to the formation of the Harvard Computer Society. According to current president Josh. A. Kroll ’09, the club was formed in 1983 as a response to student demand. “One of the club’s early duties was as a collective for purchasing computer hardware at a discount,” Kroll wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...Palestinians are continually denied what we want and demand for ourselves—an ordinary life, dignity, livelihood, safety, and a place where they can raise their children—and are forced, yet again, to face the destruction of their families, then the inevitable outcome will be greater and more extreme violence across all factions, both old and increasingly new. What looms is no less than the loss of entire generation of Palestinians. And if this happens—perhaps it already has—we shall all bear the cost...
...More important than any change in attitudes at Harvard, however, is the fact that the federal government might soon allow gay individuals to serve in the military openly, a movement that has gathered strength after reports that specialists in high-demand languages like Arabic and Farsi have been discharged for being gay. President Obama has said that he will push Congress to repeal the law, noting that the British armed forces have integrated their ranks without incident. Such a change in policy would strip Harvard of its basis for opposing the military’s presence on campus. Since most...
...Diplomats tell TIME that major Latin broker countries like Brazil are stepping in now to help hammer out a deal palatable to both Washington and Havana - one that would probably demand a lesser gesture of democratic commitment on Cuba's part, like the release of political prisoners. But they also suggest that the General Assembly may end up deciding to simply hold a yearlong "dialogue" on the matter, to allow the U.S. and Cuba to ease into a compromise that would be unveiled...