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...framework. If that means providing more citizenship tutoring or doing other things to improve the lives of immigrants in the Boston area, so be it. I prefer international outreach as the modicum of real change, but local work is still extremely commendable. Organizing the millions that have demonstrated in favor of immigrants’ rights is truly an amazing accomplishment— especially with a population that is so diverse and divided. It took the time and energy of city officials and activists alike to accomplish that. Yet, that effort must now be utilized for systematic change. We have shown...
...replaced with a new committee or whether the UC’s size should be reduced. After nearly a month of heated discussions about internal restructuring, the council broke into applause when UC Vice-President Annie R. Riley ’07 announced that 36 members had voted in favor of the amendment to reduce the size of the UC and 10 against, just over the three-fourths majority needed to pass a constitutional amendment. The loudest cheers could be heard from the back of the room, where Team Zebra, Dem Apples, and Red Ivy bloggers drank champagne. While leaving...
MARCH 11, 2003 Ten professors spoke out harshly against a plan to eliminate shopping period in favor of preregistration. Music professor Robert D. Levin ’68 called the proposal “practically and aesthetically repugnant.” Another professor called for an emergency meeting to plan Harvard’s response to the looming invasion of Iraq...
...Faculty members spoke in favor of an overhaul of the College’s sexual assault policies. The only professor to speak against them was political scientist Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who said that casual “hookups” might define sexual behavior on campus...
...switched to milk from cows raised without synthetic hormones at all its medical centers. Organic fruits and vegetables are now being served at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In Hermiston, Ore., Good Shepherd Health Care System banned potato chips in favor of baby carrots and replaced beef with antibiotic- and hormone-free bison. "It has 75% less fat than beef and a third less fat than chicken," says dietitian Nancy Gummer...