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...staff wrote last September, "Factory farming is being recognized as an important health and environmental concern, and many have realized the potentially negative effects of meat consumption on climate change" ("Rethinking Meat," Sep. 16, 2010). Harvard students are equally horrified when they discover that the abuse that farmed animals face in today's industrial meat production—including being castrated without being given any painkillers and having their throats cut while they're still conscious—would warrant cruelty-to-animals charges if the cats or dogs who share our homes were the victims...
...continue leading the academic world. Sometimes this source of funding does not appear as noble or progressive to us as the places where the funds ultimately end. But we must keep things in perspective; students must stop speaking out against programs such as the relatively innocuous Z-list or face the reality of losing the expensive humanitarian lifestyle they simultaneously advocate...
...United States Postal Service recently announced its plan to cut Saturday mail delivery in the face of growing deficits and decreasing mail volume. The cuts have widespread public support from 71 percent of Americans, including majorities of both political parties, even though the projected job losses are undesirable for a country just exiting a major recession. Simultaneously, the reiteration of the USPS’s financial woes has prompted some calls for the agency to fully privatize. We support the Saturday service cuts as an unpleasant but necessary money-saving measure; however, we reject any calls for the Postal Service...
...There’s no other place now in this area, in New England—probably in the country—that we’d be able to survive, especially given the challenges independent bookstores face nowadays,” Schoenhof’s General Director Daniel Eastman says...
This examination will lead to Farhi’s new intermediate level class next year, “Macroeconomic Policy in the Global Economy,” which will develop simple models to determine the effects of the “large macro problems that we face today about the [American] and European debt crises,” Fahri said...