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...Such a blizzard of paper may be short of the more than 150 million cards sold for Mother's Day, but it's still quite a tribute. What's less clear is whether dads--at least as a group--have done a good enough job to deserve the honor...
...Question Of Honor" [May 28] Duke University vice provost Bob Thompson defended the decision to abandon the Turnitin.com plagiarism-detection website on the ground that checking student work for plagiarism is inconsistent with "a place that is trying to presume honor." Honor is wonderful and admirable, but it cannot be willed upon a group of young men and women. Ethics courses and elegant speeches about the value of integrity are not enough to curb academic dishonesty. Thompson seems to think honest students are hurt by the expression of mistrust implicit in using Turnitin. Those students are smart enough to know...
...Next semester, Petersen will be dealing with a new set of administrators, but his plans are no less far-reaching than they were this spring. By the end of December, he says, Petersen would like to see a reformed Administrative Board and, perhaps, the institution of an honor code. He also wants students to sit on the secretive and influential Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resources Committee...
...this year’s recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize, the highest international honor for political scientists. The prize committee honored Skocpol “for her visionary analysis of the significance of the state for revolutions, welfare, and political trust...
Today’s Harvard is also one where the students are demonstrating an extraordinarily high sense of moral and ethical responsibility even before they leave the confines of the Ivory Tower. In the past five months, I have had the honor of meeting with students who spend their spare time preparing immigrants for citizenship, teaching in the Boston public schools, and working on homelessness policy. Today’s Harvard students are aware of and engaged in the broader Boston community in a way that I believe exceeds the standards we set in the 70s and 80s. Harvard should...