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When I switched concentrations from history to history of art and architecture halfway through my sophomore year, I anticipated (and hoped for) drastic differences between the departments. What I could not have anticipated, however, were the newfound prejudices that I would experience as a student who studies modern...
...changes to the way in which it will fund HoCos. But while the new rules are certainly a step in the right direction, they cannot hope to go far enough to make HoCos genuinely effective instruments of House community. To do that, the UC would have to take a drastic step: stop funding HoCos altogether.Under the present funding scheme, the UC allocates $3,500 to every HoCo each semester. Given the role that Houses could—and were designed to—play in campus life at Harvard, this is barely a pittance. Since the UC has other things...
...bird-flu pandemic can be avoided if we stop raising poultry for human consumption. Chickens can still be preserved for egg production through breeding in controlled laboratories. That is a drastic step, but it is necessary for disease prevention. If governments do not wish to do that, they should concentrate the slaughter of poultry in a few (very few) regional slaughterhouses to reduce contact between chickens and humans. The time to act is now. Casey Lim Hong Kong...
...often the last person bombers talk to before their deadly mission. He is so proficient at facilitating suicide bombings that he says his own brother and sister have asked to be considered for "martyrdom operations." He gave them some basic training but advised them to find other, less drastic ways of serving the insurgency. "A suicide bombing should be the last resort," he says. "It should not be a shortcut to paradise...
...With Harvard’s offense striking out for the past two games, the team direly needs a drastic change?...