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...SOCH’s resources and office space in its first year. An adjustment period is to be expected.Beyond the spaces and events over which the College has immediate control lies the uncharted territory of social events hosted by extracurricular groups and social clubs. In an attempt to exert control over this arena, the College proposed—and the Faculty approved—a poorly-conceived alcohol policy this spring.The new policy codifies the College’s previously informal amnesty policy, protecting students who bring themselves or their dangerously intoxicated peers to University Health Services (UHS) from disciplinary...
...discrimination at the University, then as now, caused controversy. Theda Skocpol, then a candidate for tenure and now the outgoing Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, accused the University of sexism, the Director of Harvard's Center for Behavioral Sciences controversially called on society to exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality," and Women's Studies struggled for meaningful recognition as a degree-granting concentration. Many of the specific struggles from 1982 have been won, but the broader issues-issues of Harvard's treatment of its neighbors and its students, and of women and minorities-remain...
...Darnton will be faced with an unusually delicate administrative task. Each of the individual faculties of Harvard funds its own library, while the University Library is a department of the central administration. Darnton will need to bring together a decentralized set of Harvard libraries over which he does not exert direct budgetary authority...
...just because there are worse injustices, it does not mean we should not take action in situations where we can actually exert influence. And to claim that a security officer does not deserve to be paid a living wage because he can sit down on the job—or even do something as audacious as read a book—is unfair...
...Without using her name, Tenet alleges that then-National Security Adviser Condi Rice did not exert the kind of scrutiny of Rumsfeld's and Cheney's ideas as she did of the CIA and the State Department. Tenet says the lack of clear White House oversight of reconstruction efforts in Iraq meant US policy was "almost guaranteed" to fail...