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...would have thought the Faculty meeting would be a forum for discussion before the move is a fait accompli, but with the planning for the move already on the docket, it seems as if it is a fait accompli,” Burgard told The Crimson after the 2003 meeting...
...want to get out of it.” We share Mahan’s concern, and we worry that the new committees will be used to rubber-stamp University Hall’s proposals instead of genuinely discussing the best ways of moving forward. The Review is no fait accompli; treating it as such will allow last spring’s underwhelming report to serve as the underwhelming standard bearer for a Harvard education over the next several decades...
...already confident in its answers to moral questions—namely, that such questions are not important and need not be seriously considered before proceeding—and that it merely needs to convince Americans of the intrinsic rightness of its position by presenting them with a fait accompli. Harvard is not alone, though; many scientists elsewhere forge ahead with stem cell research, insensible to ethical objections, and this is justified with the rhetoric of progressivism. Helen M. Blau, director of the Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology at Stanford University School of Medicine, frets that as “leaders...
...such decisions. In fairness, Summers has not made permanent decisions about Allston yet. But it is difficult to dismiss Professor of German Peter J. Burgard’s concern, expressed to The Crimson after last week’s meeting, that “what we perceive as a fait accompli is being presented to us as if there’s a discussion...
...There was concern that what we perceive as a fait accompli is being presented to us as if there’s a discussion,” he said...