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Noting that the “recent debate” about the role of women in math and science has illuminated the shortage of women in these fields, the letter called for a “broad-ranging inquiry?? and asked Congress to take action to increase the numbers of women entering these disciplines...
...last week’s Undergraduate Council’s (UC) general meeting, we, along with three other council members, introduced a piece of legislation entitled “An Affirmation of Free Speech and Open Inquiry?? that addressed those members of the Harvard Community who criticized University President Lawrence H. Summers for provoking academic debate at a recent academic conference. The bill did not endorse Summers’ comments, but it did endorse his right to stimulate academic discussion. The legislation’s aim was not to be critical of those who challenged the substance...
...students, we were also elected to show the rest of the Harvard community how the student body feels on important issues. It is our responsibility to show the rest of the Harvard community that we remember that Harvard stands for hundreds of years of free speech and academic inquiry??our motto “Veritas,” inspires academic exploration. A university or an organization like the U.C. that stifles academic debate has no purpose. For members of the Harvard community to attack the right of the President of the University to ask questions and pose hypotheses...
...accusations commonly made against opponents of stem cell research are really quite beside the point. Romney does not seek to limit “scientific inquiry?? in its entirety, but rather an extremely specific and controversial part of it. Romney is not interested in preventing kids from learning about Darwin in high school biology, nor is he interested in limiting the nuclear physics taking place at MIT. He does not even seek to stop researchers from studying and utilizing human embryos. What he in fact seeks to do is prevent the creation of a human life with...
...last-minute bill not on the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) official agenda last night, a core group of representatives called for “free speech and open academic inquiry?? in a nod to the controversy surrounding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership of Harvard...