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During that struggle, Harvard played an active role in supporting the effort to defeat the Axis Powers, according Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. Classes were accelerated to allow students to graduate early and join the armed forces. Harvard's president during the war, James Bryant Conant '14, played a large role in developing the atomic bomb. And the University had a special school to train administrators who helped run the American district in Germany after that country's surrender...
...country is truly as serious about winning the drug war as it was about winning World War II, Harvard should make an equally determined effort to help remove drugs from American cities. Members of the Kennedy School brain trust such as Lecturer in Public Policy Mark A. R. Kleiman and Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management Mark H. Moore have already contributed to the federal government's drug policies...
This interaction between Harvard and government authorities should continue, but on a larger scale. In an interview yesterday, Kleiman suggested the creation of a drug center along the lines of Harvard's inter-disciplinary effort to combine research and public policy questions stemming from the spread of the AIDS virus...
Harvard also should use its 81-member police force to make more of an effort to fight drugs. Currently Harvard Police make drug arrests when they find narcotics after searching suspects of other crimes or after they receive tips or when they make concerted efforts to find drugs, said Harvard University Police Chief Paul E. Johnson yesterday. But, Johnson said, the University police don't have the resources to run ongoing drug investigations...
From the personal attitudes and behavior of students, to the creation of a special center to study drugs, to increased efforts by the university police to arrest drug offenders, the University can and should make a greater effort to win the drug...