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While its ways are sometimes criticized as opaque, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences took a big step towards openness yesterday, passing a motion that will allow Harvard to freely distribute scholarly articles produced by FAS professors...
Professors at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) could easily have been forgiven for thinking that they were in a time warp: same issue, same players, same dispute—but this time, different results...
...motion before the FAS in support of open access to scholarly articles concerns openness in general. It is meant to promote the free communication of knowledge. By retaining rights for the widest possible dissemination of the faculty’s work, it would make scholarship by members of the FAS freely accessible everywhere in the world, and it would reinforce a new effort by Harvard to share its intellectual wealth. The University Library has taken a leading role in that endeavor. Far from reserving its resources for the privileged few, it is digitizing its special collections, opening them to everyone...
Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise will assume additional duties as Interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) beginning in March, according to a statement circulated by FAS Dean Michael D. Smith on Wednesday. While Scalise will continue to oversee the athletic department even after taking on his new duties in University Hall, he said he was not concerned about the prospect of holding down two jobs at once. “I have a good team here in place in Athletics,” he said, “and I feel confident that they...
Dunster House residents were surprised, if not a little taken aback, when they received an e-mail over the house list last weekend soliciting nude photographs of “all hot Harvard girls.” If the e-mail had not come from a FAS student account, it probably would have been filtered into e-mail spam folders with the likes of Viagra advertisements and congratulatory e-mails from fake lottery organizations...