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...committee’s preliminary assessments indicate an advocacy of distribution requirements over three general subject areas, as well as two mandatory Harvard College Courses that will be “broad in scope and ambition.” But while distribution requirements will allow for more student freedom in class choice, the committee’s failure to define exactly what a Harvard College Course will entail is worrying; without this clear articulation, it is difficult to support introducing these courses into the College’s new curriculum. If the committee hopes to gain widespread acceptance...
...recording industry has gained a new partner in its myopic campaign of strict copyright law enforcement: the publishing industry. What publishers oppose, however, is far more significant than the freedom to shuffle between Bruce Hornsby and U2 on an iPod. When a group of publishers announced last week that they disapproved of a Harvard University Libraries (HUL) project to digitize a portion of Harvard’s books, they declared their hostility toward the enrichment and advancement of the academic world...
Leading 2-0, the Harvard players could feel the freedom of vacation at their fingertips...
Nonetheless, the most important issue at hand is economic freedom. The principles of free enterprise and the right of every citizen in a just and fair society to decide how and when to purchase what they will are the cornerstones of any democratic meritocracy. Dorm life is not a mandatory egalitarian process imposed upon us by the College to distort our view of how societies run best. Nor is it a system designed to paternalistically decide what is fair and unfair consumption based upon income brackets. Rather, dorm life is a system designed to facilitate our studies here. The vast...
...lessen the quality of life of those who choose not to use it, it should be a viable option for the former. As the 20th century has proved a disastrous experiment for Marxism and centrally-planned normative dictates, our campus should be respectful of our fellow students’ freedom of choice and not unreasonably prescribe personal consumption preferences as social ideals. It is DormAid’s mission to increase the quality of life on campus. We hope that in the coming months, that goal will be apparent, realized, and supported...