Word: inputs
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Leahy did indicate that later hours would be considered over the next several years, especially during the library system’s upcoming attempts to accumulate more student input. Yet, the number of students in Lamont late at night shows that many undergraduates strongly desire extended library hours now, rather than years down the road. Harvard rightly spends millions of dollars on its libraries, and some of those resources should be spent now on an improvement that would tangibly increase students’ access to Lamont...
...Darwinism in the realm of spiritual consolation. Some of ID's leading figures push God way back in evolutionary time. The philosopher and Baylor University professor William Dembski argues in mathematical language that natural selection, to create life as we know it, must have received some kind of external input. But he allows that this input could be something quite abstract, embedded in the early context of evolution--perhaps in "boundary conditions" that "constrain" genetic mutation...
...early, abstract and arguably divine input is what you're after, plain old Darwinism leaves room for that. No one knows how DNA began to replicate or how the universe got built in such a way that replication was possible. It's not crazy to think that such initial conditions were set by some intelligence for an overarching purpose that is still unfolding. After all, look at the spiritually rich products of evolution so far: consciousness, love, the human conscience, morally consequential choice...
...seen in various actions since his installation, University President Lawrence H. Summers has come to Harvard with very undemocratic beliefs and is pushing hard to diminish the power students and other members of the community have to impact policy. He announced his sit-in policy without any input from students, just one step in an attempt to crack down on and discourage protest at Harvard. The advisory board on the selection of the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not include students. Summers has metaphorically referred to the relationship between students and Harvard as similar...
...lack of student input isn’t exactly “outrageous”—after all, Harvard isn’t a democracy, it’s a private institution—but if Summers really wanted to remind the faculties of the existence of the statement, he could have done that without adding any language to the document. He would have looked far less heavy-handed and accomplished even more if he had taken a cue from Professors Phillip A Kuhn and James Engell—who suggested reaffirming the statement in a September Faculty...