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...Interim Dean of Harvard College David R. Pilbeam found out where students were willing to make their stand the hard way on Oct. 2 when, in an open letter to members of the Undergraduate Council’s Executive Board, he announced the disbandment of the UC party grant program, which provided thousands of dollars every week for private parties on campus. Both the abrupt tone and the sudden timing of Pilbeam’s missive sent shock waves through the community, stoking the flames of open-list debates and inspiring conjecture about the machinations of the College...
Thanks to Mohammed A. El-Erian, HMC’s soon-departing president and CEO, HMC has been making a concerted effort to be more open. In a letter to investors two months ago, El-Erian wrote that “many of you have told us that […] we should nonetheless be more transparent about HMC’s structure, activities, and governance. We agree.” A main component of El-Erian’s program is hmc.harvard.edu, a Web site—HMC’s first—launched in September. Given...
...What's fueling the debate over Môquet's letter is precisely what Môquet considered that higher purpose to be. In the view of Sarkozy and his backers, it was overthrowing Nazi domination for the freedom and liberty of the French nation; to others, it was overthrowing the very market system Sarkozy is seeking to bolster as he reforms France's welfare state. The youthful Môquet, many observers note, was a communist committed to revolution; a poem he wrote on the day of his arrest promised to "kill capitalism," and sought to give heart...
...speaks volumes about his relationship with French society: half the country applauded the move whereas the other half denounced it as a cynical attempt to advance his own ideological agenda. At issue is Sarkozy's decision to have every school in France stage annual Oct. 22 readings of the letter written by 17-year-old Resistance member Guy Môquet penned to his family shortly before his Nazi captors executed him in 1941. The letter begins with a tender call to "My dearest Mother, my beloved little brother, my beloved father", informing them, "I'm going...
...religious objects like yarmulkes and Islamic hijab in public schools. That official state secularism was imposed at public schools in 1903 to end previous practices of Catholic theology being taught under the guise of non-denominational education; critics claim Sarkozy's embrace of the Môquet letter restores that practice on an ideological level. "Can we take the risk that the event will transform the high school into a political arena?" asked SNES in a statement explaining why it was urging its members not to respect the reading of the letter...