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...recruiters returned to Harvard’s campus last week, enabled by a March Supreme Court decision that upheld the Solomon Amendment and forced universities to choose between granting military recruiters access or forfeiting hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research funds. For clear financial reasons, picking the latter option would have been an irresponsible move for Harvard. Nevertheless, the University can, and should, do more to oppose the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy, which has damaging and reprehensible effects on both the military and the students it is recruiting.Universities have been...
...quarter of a century, and the whole nightclub phenomenon ran its course. When the 1980s turned conservative politically and sexually with Reagan in the White House and the arrival of AIDS, I think there was a backlash to the social-sexual change that took place in the latter part of the '60s and the '70s. So I think it was a more conservative time. I think in the last half-dozen years the brand itself, both in America and globally, has become very hot again - I think there's a fascination with things retro that didn't exist...
...Shots in the Dark and the Chronicle of Higher Education's News Blog, to name just a few. This summer saw the addition of two Ivy-focused blogs: IvyGate and IvyLeak. Today they get profiled in the Brown Daily Herald and the New York Sun (question for the latter: why?), and the mud flies. Here's a quick summary of both pieces...
...that the certainty of fundamentalism? Or was it the initiation into a mystery none of us can ever fully understand? I'd argue the latter. The 18th century German playwright Gotthold Lessing said it best. He prayed a simple prayer: "If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left hand only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand, and say, Father, I will take...
...trickling out over the op-ed pages of national newspapers. Following Stanford Provost John Etchemendy's defiant stance in the New York Times last week, UPenn President Amy Gutmann took to the Washington Post on Sunday with a similar defense of early admissions. (The Daily Pennsylvanian notes the latter today...