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...Last April, the Harvard’s first cross-school department—the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology—was created based on UPCSE’s recommendation. And UPCSE’s work remains at the top of the University-wide agenda. Indeed, in a letter to the entire University community last month, Faust mentioned interdisciplinary integration in the sciences as one of the most important strokes in her sketch of the academic year to come. Fortunately, Faust has recognized that there is no reason to limit departmental integration to the sciences. As Malkin Professor...
...College has ended the Undergraduate Council program that disburses thousands of dollars every week to pay for campus parties. In a sharply worded open letter to four UC representatives, Interim Dean of the College David Pilbeam chastised the council for insufficiently regulating the parties and urged it to refocus on funding student groups...
Pilbeam, in his letter, said the UC "has not assumed responsibility...for verifying that underage students will not be reimbursed for purchasing alcohol." He added that "it is quite apparent that the UC Party Grant program, in practice, has funded parties where the focus is on drinking." And he claimed that the program created problems for the Houses by promoting events in cramped dormitory rooms...
...Indeed, they are only allowed to appear “in certain disciplinary cases…under specific guidelines.” While we recognize that entering a private institution causes us to surrender some rights as citizens, the Administrative Board should adhere to the spirit, if not the letter, of due process. Students who are facing possible dismissal from the College should be allowed to appear before the Board to explain their actions and make the best possible case for themselves. Instead, students are forced to blindly put their faith in their resident dean or assistant dean of freshmen...
...Archduke, who spent the first four years of his life in the castle, seems to be no less emotional about the matter. In a letter addressed to parliament, he stated: "I live once more with the feeling of dread in which I once lived as a child, when my family and I were forced out of our home and thrown into the streets in midwinter." He called the attempt to take the castle away from him a "dreadful injustice." His lawyers said they will sue the Romanian state for $200 million...