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...real estate on both sides of the Charles River. Over the last decade, the Corporation and its managers, equating financial growth with Harvard’s “educational mission,” have managed to transform whole portions of the University into the spitting image of a for-profit big business...
...Despite the prison prohibition forbidding for-profit sale of artwork, many of the pieces sold by Ed Mead on his prisonart.org web site come from Texas, many of them panos or "handkerchief" art, a medium favored by Latino prisoners in the Southwest who do intricate ink drawings on squares of ripped sheets and other material. Mead makes copies of the works, scans and posts them on his website, charging a small commission fee if they sell. He says he rejects any art that he considers racist, sexist or homophobic and does not sell pieces by notorious killers. Recently, he refused...
...researcher, a postdoctoral fellow from France, had worked alongside Professor of Genetics Brian Seed, a co-founder of Connetics. And Harvard Medical School’s conflict-of-interest rules create a wall between researchers and for-profit companies in which they have invested...
...policy prohibiting faculty from owning stock in companies that fund their research is just one of Harvard Medical School’s many conflict-of-interest restrictions. Medical School affiliates also cannot hold most kinds of management positions at for-profit biomedical firms—even if their own research is not linked to the businesses...
Aside from the guilty-until-proved-innocent argument, many students are apoplectic that a for-profit entity--which charges 87 per student per year for plagiarism detection--is making money off their homework. As soon as a paper is vetted for cut- and-paste plagiarism, it joins a database against which every new submission will be compared. Thus, argues a recent Op-Ed in the Texas A&M newspaper, the company should have to pay to use these works, "without which their service would be crippled." Concerns about intellectual-property rights as well as cost led the University of Kansas...