Word: kabir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student-less university. It's a sad contradiction in terms, but that's exactly what Harvard may be creating. In a recent Crimson article, Associate Dean Richard G. Leahy, chairman of the commission to study the proposed Reza Shah Kabir University in Iran, stated that the institution may begin as a research institute, without students. Typically Harvard--education takes a back seat to research. But what kind of research will be conducted, and who will conduct it? Given the Iranian Shah's fanatic interest in military equipment, his university could end up as a Harvard-staffed weapons development lab. After...
...power-thirsty dictatorship like Iran's, I'll just say this: it seems to me that Harvard would do better to address itself to events right here in Cambridge, rather than to pour money, teaching time, and professor's lives into a high-risk investment like the Reza Shah Kabir University. Carol Petsonk