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...college to have sexual harassment policies and guidelines,” Pellegrini said. “But if colleges and universities think this addresses the problem of gender hierarchy, they’re wrong. Sexual harassment is part of gender hierarchy but it’s not isolable from larger questions about women in the university.”THE LEGACY OF A TRANSFORMATIONBy the end of the 1984, calls for a central office to address harassment concerns were reinforced by the recommendation that the University create and ombudsman officethat would serve to codify harassment procedures and offer a clear...
...withholding of this fund was one of many student responses to a larger moral quandary that had been contested on Harvard’s campus since a decade earlier...
...million others–mostly in rural South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa–who were already suffering from chronic malnutrition before prices went up. Yet none of the invited speakers at Harvard’s session on food had much interest in this larger problem, or any academic standing to address it. One was a celebrity restaurant owner from San Francisco, the second led an organization called Slow Food USA, and the third was a noted playwright and actress from New York. Apparently Harvard had found no reason to seek the opinion of a trained nutritionist...
...There was even a failed proposal in 1984 to ban alcoholic drinks larger than 16 oz., which, if passed, would have eliminated the Hong Kong’s 30oz. scorpion bowl—an ambiguous but eternally popular blend of liquor and juice...
...case basis. Another area in which Harvard fails to teach more important lessons is in the area of criticism. There are far too many teaching fellows and professors who fail to criticize students when they make mistakes. It would be entirely possible to go through a course, especially a larger course in the Core, and make completely inane, off topic comments throughout the sections without ever being told that the comments were “wrong.” Perhaps TF’s consider it rude or insulting to tell students that their arguments or insights are incorrect...