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Before the committee discusses a change in the Handbook for Students, the CCL decided that UC members must collaborate with Ellison to draft a new policy. Ellison will then discuss it with members of the Ad Board and Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam. —Staff writer Sophie M. Alexander can be reached at salexand@fas.harvard.edu...
Since 2002, a little-known academic ritual has taken place each year at Harvard University. Academics of every stripe, from historians to constitutional lawyers, gather to discuss Tibet's past, present and future. Uniquely, these intellectual debates have brought together Chinese and exiled Tibetan scholars. In the real world, the simplest facts about Tibet are so divisive that dialogue is impossible. Chinese speak of the 1950 peaceful liberation of the Chinese province of Tibet, and of its subsequent modernization; Tibetans speak of the invasion of an independent nation, and the suppression of its religious and cultural traditions. The polite rules...
...offers an opportunity to break free of the limits of the TV spectrum, where “content becomes very base and mean, and hence you get things that tend to cater to the average viewer.” Hopkins said he initially arranged a meeting with Summers to discuss what it would take to convince the former treasury secretary to participate as an expert on the site. Summers raised concerns about scholarly discourse being undermined by inappropriate content posted to the site by individual users, according to Hopkins. Summers is traveling and was unavailable for comment. After Hopkins reassured...
Information about recent student e-mails is currently available to administrators upon request, a policy that could soon change. The Committee on College Life will today discuss altering the student electronic privacy policy to formally limit the administration’s ability to access student data. The current policy allows administrators to request information on e-mail content and the time, date, and size of e-mail messages when necessary “to ensure compliance with University rules.” Secretary of the Administrative Board John “Jay” L. Ellison wrote...
...universities’ aid expansions Monday, but expressed continued support for the five percent mandate, calling the proposal “reasonable.” But the legislation remains in the planning stages, according to Grassley spokeswoman Jill Kozeny, who said the Finance Committee had not yet decided to discuss the issue. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu —Staff writer Nathan C. Stauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...