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...June 4 news article "Students Feel the Pinch" incorrectly implied that the fact that a smaller number of student tutors were hired at the Writing Center resulted from a reduction in the Center's budget. In fact, the reduction in new hires only reflected a smaller number of tutors graduating that particular year, according to Writing Center Director Jane Rosenzweig, who said there are no plans to reduce the budget for tutors at the Writing Center...
...addition, the article also incorrectly stated that a new rule had been implemented at the Writing Center mandating that only two students work there at a time, based on information from a student tutor there who later said her statement resulted from a misinterpretation. In fact, no such rule was put in place, and the Center has no plans to cut student hours, according to Rosenzweig...
...which we live. And for many years, the Study of Religion has operated as a degree-granting Committee without departmental status, patching together faculty and courses from many departments and from the Divinity School. Meanwhile, the energies of religion have hardly subsided in the face of secularism. In fact, the religious traditions of humankind are flourishing in all their diversity, creating worldwide promise and worldwide pestilence. Basic religious literacy has never been a more important educational priority...
...There was almost no debate, for example about who Lawrence H. Summer’s replacement as university president should have been, despite the fact that virtually all of the candidates were publicly known and had been profiled extensively in the media. No student, professor, or campus organization I know of openly supported a particular candidate, even though many had private opinions they would readily share. (I was barred from expressing my opinion as a reporter covering the search, so I will do so now: I favored Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan or Howard Hughes Medical Institute chief Thomas...
...institutional well being. (Lewis even wrote a book sharing his opinions on Harvard’s direction as a university—he tellingly titled it, “Excellence Without a Soul.”) These voices, though, seem few are far between, despite the fact that there is little reason to stay silent. The University is not run by a bunch of ayatollahs, as the uneventfullness of my brief foray into public tactlessness seems to show...