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...motion comes as top administration officials try to move discussion of faculty discontent with Summers out of Faculty meetings and into more private settings, both to diffuse discontent and to ensure that other administrative issues??particularly the Curricular Review—are discussed...
Walsh, who focused in his speech on the problems presented by nuclear weapons and terrorism—and the roles and responsibilities of students with regard to these issues??has written a number of articles on the subject, and he recently appeared on network affiliates in the Boston area to offer analysis of the situation in North Korea and Iran...
Proponents of the research now under debate should retain more of the nuance they claim is theirs alone, and lose the arbitrariness for which they chastise their opponents. They also should be aware that although they think that the relevant “ethical issues?? have been resolved, the “careful review” that has taken place so far is not sufficient. I, and others like me who oppose the creation of embryos for research purposes, yearn just as earnestly for the day when Alzheimer’s, cancer, and diabetes have all been relegated...
...most positive outcome of the past few weeks may be the Faculty’s increased willingness to speak out on issues that have long troubled many of them. But its flipside is the dangerous likelihood that this crisis of governance will distract from the underlying issues??unintentionally aiding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ attempts to bring Washington politics to an institution that needs anything...
...concerns would be to continue to label issues that we care deeply about as “wedges” that are somehow off limits. Wherever you put yourself on the ideological spectrum, have an open and active enough mind to actually debate the “wedge issues?? that will determine what sort of country we will inhabit...