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McLoughlin told group leaders that zoning guidelines bar the College from constructing ground-to-ceiling walls in the Hilles space. The groups??€™ offices will be separated by bookshelves and curtains, he said...
John and Annie both realize that the sense of community at Harvard we all value so highly is best cultivated not by top-down social planning, but by smaller groups??€”at a capella concerts, political discussions, House formals, and intramural sports matches. They won’t forget that the value of the UC is determined not by how many bills it passes or by how many events it throws, but by how many students it enables to shape their own social and extracurricular lives...
...ancillary to our argument. We merely believe that any overt and rigid requirements alienating a portion of the student body should not be condoned by funding derived from the entire undergraduate population. After all, even the most culturally-specific groups on campus have members that do not fit the groups??€™ standard profiles. It is vital that the UC not give money to organizations that choose to rely on artificial constitutional distinctions rather than the choice of its members for the election of its officers. Future suspensions of UC bylaws should be restricted to situations that clearly merit them...
...understanding of the causes of genetically-based diseases such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorder. Harvard researchers from the Broad Institute joined a team of 200 researchers in six nations to complete the $138 million project. Findings from the HapMap, compiled by analyzing genetic data from four ethnic groups??€”Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, and the Yoruba of Nigeria—were published in last week’s edition of the journal Nature. Researchers found over three million common variants in the three-billion-unit human genome. Researchers are now planning to use the HapMap data to search...
...bodies through their admissions processes. Under the present system, however, a simple yes-or-no question about racial identity can only produce a simplistic understanding of diversity. If colleges are to build entering classes that represent a variety of individuals—and not simply a variety of minority groups??€”they will have to start by renovating the process by which they choose their students. The checked box must...