Word: freedom
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...infinity of data is at everybody’s fingertips, and the specific community into which one is born is becoming increasingly incidental. Rather than be forced to study one or two nations, the way the program is set up now, students should be given the freedom to study larger “themes” like the roots of revolution or the rhetoric of religion, subjects which are inherently interdisciplinary and transnational.To rebuke Hist and Lit too severely would be unfair, however. The program is largely dependent upon departmental course offerings, and “transnationalism?...
...cited, even as journals publish them. The Law School followed suit in May. Here the university acted to free information rather than to control it. Harvard defied the predatory monopoly of journal publishers. Bravo, fair Harvard. “To thy children the lesson still give,/ With freedom to think …/ Be the herald of light …/ Till the stock of the Puritans die.” Harry R. Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future...
...paper’s funding. A major concern was that funding was yanked primarily due to the paper’s criticisms of the student government. College administrations need to be sure that there is steady financial support for student newspapers on college campuses and that they have the freedom to report on any news they see fit—regardless of what is written about the people in authority. Yet, this year we were also reminded that the freedom of the press comes with serious responsibility. In February, a columnist in The Campus Press at the University of Colorado...
...Ultimately, in wielding the freedom of the press, students must continue to be bold while recognizing the need to be well-informed and responsible in what gets published on college campuses. The academic environment depends...
...However, in the current climate, very little is being done. A conference in Erbil, Iraq, in December attended by representatives of Iraq’s ministries, universities, and NGO community concluded that universities must be given autonomy in order to assure their academic freedom. But this measure has been on the table since 2003 and is no closer to implementation...