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Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, says he would favor the establishment of fraternities and sororities at Harvard. "It is a way for people to feel a part of something," he says. "It's like formalized friendship...
Still more debate centers around safety concerns. Adversaries contend that the treatment changes the chemical composition of food and can create carcinogens, such as benzene, formaldehyde and substances called unique radiolytic products (URPs). Those who favor the process respond that the quantities of toxic chemicals are minute, that they occur naturally (like benzene in eggs), and that some cooking methods -- frying, for example -- also generate small amounts of carcinogens. As for the URPs, they are not new creations at all, says the FDA, but simply existing chemicals that have not been detected before in the human diet. "There...
...TIME poll, 69% of the public said they would favor a drug-testing program at their company, while 23% said they would be against it; 81% said that if given a choice they would agree to be tested. More specific questions, however, disclosed some deep ambivalences: 58% said they agreed with the statement, "It is people's right not to be tested if they do not want to be," and 44% with the statement, "There are too many questions about the accuracy of drug tests for them to be used to test people at work...
Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, says he would favor the establishment of fraternities and sororities at Harvard. "It is a way for people to feel a part of something," he says. "It's like formalized friendship...
Sometimes even the most ossified policy can break down under new pressures. Last April, Dean Spence announced a long overdue reform in Harvard's practice of passing over its own junior professors for tenure in favor of world class heavyweights. Three problems motivated the change. First, the traditional tenure policy has been yielding fewer and fewer top academic guns eager for the opportunity of supping at the Faculty Club and purchasing overpriced Boston real estate. Second, Harvard has become a junior faculty farm team for other universities, providing them top tenurable scholars who will often prefer to stay put when...