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Perhaps most importantly, this shift does not necessitate a drastic change in the structure of our reading and exam period. One of our great privileges as students at Harvard is our reading period, a luxury enjoyed at few other schools. Currently there are 12 reading days in the Fall semester; the new calendar guarantees between eight and 11 days depending upon the date of Labor Day each year. Every few years we will face the worst-case scenario of only eight reading days—but with the semester presumably fresher in our minds during that period, requiring less relearning...
Several faculty members who were present for the 1970s review told me they remember feeling excitement in the air as questions of education were debated. This time around, nobody knows what’s going on—much less feels excitement. Unless the process takes a drastic change, we risk two dangers as students and professors sleep through the review: at the worst, permitting grave mistakes (centering the justification of learning on economic concerns), and at best, missing a golden opportunity. Last commencement, Summers called this “the most comprehensive examination of undergraduate education in a generation...
...this drastic redefinition of international norms, as well as thousands of American and Iraqi deaths over the last year, that spurred protesters over the weekend to fill city streets throughout the world. And, although we firmly disagree with the rhetoric of the far left of the protest movement—clearly, the world is better off with Saddam Hussein safely behind bars—we are glad those who opposed the war continue to fight the good fight. It is essential in this election year that dissenters continue pressing the Bush administration, as well as the American public, to honestly...
...court to suspend a publication when its content is false, or when it causes "irreparable damage" to its subject with no benefit to the public interest. Few critics of the district court's decision defend the Tanaka story as being in the public interest, but many find the drastic action over such an innocuous revelation a blow to free speech. While an editorial in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper condemned the magazine story as intrusive and sensationalistic, it simultaneously called the injunction "a radical and dangerous departure" from the "rigorous restrictions on courts banning publications...
Princeton University Police chief Steven J. Healy, who has dealt with security issues on a variety of college campuses with universal access, says the Harvard community should not expect a drastic change in its safety as a direct result of implenting full-time...