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Herms concedes that one of his primary motives is to reverse a Harvard policy that replaced union security guards with outsourced non-union guards. By having access to more information about crime across campus, Herms says he hopes to demonstrate a direct correlation between outsourced guards and increased crime...
Although legislation is pending that would require private police forces to release incident reports, there is no direct precedent in Massachusetts for either side’s position (please see story, page...
...invested nearly $4 million dollars in PetroChina Corp., which in turn finances the genocidal Sudanese government. Harvard makes profit off its investment in PetroChina, which is then distributed back throughout the university—perhaps even as financial aid. Therefore, my financial aid may be partially subsidized by direct profits from PetroChina, which funds genocide in Sudan. Now, without my consent, I am indirectly profiting (materially, socially, psychologically, and intellectually) from genocide. The tremendous amount of freedoms accrued to me as a result of being a Harvard student are, by virtue of Harvard’s investment, intimately intertwined with...
...debated the termbill fee increase despite a deep split within the Council, and ultimately, the Council reached a decision to increase the fee. Representative government exists so that elected officials will tackle tough issues, debate the merits of different sides, and then reach a decision. If this were a direct democracy, then every student could vote on every issue. However, this is not a direct democracy, and U.C. members have been elected to tackle tough issues and reach decisions on behalf of our constituents...
...Mubarak that he wants the constitution amended to allow more than one candidate to run in September's presidential election registered as something of a political earthquake in Cairo. Rather than yet another presidential referendum in which his is the only name on the ballot, Mubarak is proposing a direct, competitive presidential election - the first in Egypt's modern history...