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...Ostensibly, ROTC’s absence from campus life can be explained because the university deems the military a discriminatory organization. Harvard’s student handbook argues that the federal government’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy “is inconsistent with Harvard’s values as stated in its policy on discrimination.” Thus, “the University does not provide any financial or other direct support for the ROTC program...

Author: By Caleb L. Weatherl | Title: Harvard’s Moral Failure | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...instead, Harvard has chosen to exclude ROTC from campus. It has chosen not to fund overhead expenses of Harvard students participating in ROTC at MIT. It has chosen not to officially recognize the program. It has included only a section warning students against joining ROTC in its handbook, but nothing commending the service of those in the program. It has disgraced the very students who have shunned lucrative private-sector jobs in the name of service to their country and caused their numbers to dwindle on campus. I am personally aware of students who were accepted to Harvard and chose...

Author: By Caleb L. Weatherl | Title: Harvard’s Moral Failure | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...potential changes to the Administrative Board, the College’s main disciplinary body—was presented to Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds on March 6. Many of the suggestions proposed by the report, including any potential changes to the disciplinary policy appearing in the Student Handbook, must be presented to the Faculty Council and will require the approval of members of the faculty at a full Faculty meeting. At present, only two Faculty meetings remain before the end of the school year: one on May 5 and one on May 19. In order for consideration...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Time Running Short for Report | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...know how Germany could have fallen so far to embrace these vicious totalitarian ideas,” Mansfield said. “His courses were often directed to that subject.” Beer described the influence of these travels on his graduate work at Harvard in the Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. “By the time I came to Harvard in the fall of 1938, I was a fierce anti-communist, a fervent New Dealer, a devotee of Emerson, and ready to try to put it all together….[in] a defense of liberalism against...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sam Beer, Legendary Gov Prof, Dies at 97 | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...uncomfortable in Australia," he says. After he successfully campaigned to make voluntary euthanasia legal in Australia's Northern Territory in July 1996, the law was overturned by Australia's senate eight months later, after four people took their lives. Since then, the government has banned Nitschke's Peaceful Pill handbook, and legislation is currently passing through the parliament that would make it illegal to distribute information about assisted suicide via e-mail and the Internet. Britain's House of Lords is also reviewing legislation that would make it illegal to promote suicide via the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foolproofing Suicide with Euthanasia Test Kits | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

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