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...this policy is the health and safety of Harvard students (Letter to the Editor, Oct. 24). However, in outlining the policy, the deans, perhaps inadvertantly, have made an illadvised statement concerning sexual violence. They write that sexual assault is one of a number of offenses that "[s]tudents whose judgement has not been impaired by alcohol or drugs rarely commit." This statement has the regrettable effect of marginalizing the experience of individuals whose attackers were completely sober. Disturbingly, it also may potentially help to convince some survivors of sexual assault that, since the attacker was not drunk, it must...
...difficult to believe that this is the reaction that the play's producers wanted to provoke. The problem is that whatever the reason behind Colapinto's self-centered, petulant rendition of Macbeth--be it poor judgement, a deliberate attempt at experimentation, or sheer incompetence--it undermines the drama and terror essential to the play. By subverting Macbeth's atmosphere of tragedy, Colapinto's performance ultimately prevents the production from generating the fear and explosive emotion which the play is intended to evovoke. To take the Aristotelian approach, it denies us the catharsis of tragedy. To use layman's terms...
...would like to suggest that this judgement of the students' motivations and attitudes is misinformed...
Residential advisors at NYU undergo a 10-day training course before beginning their duties and then take a semester-CrimsonJohn F. CoyleSPLITTING HAIRS: TED D. MILLER says the decision to intervene in disputes between students is often a difficult judgement call...
WASHINGTON: What caused Korean Air Flight 801 to go down on Guam? Federal investigators are starting to develop a clearer picture of the culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...