Word: life
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...meeting this week provided yet another reminder of how intractable the security issues raised by the rape are. At a Committee on College Life (CCL) gathering Monday, the topic was campus security and its inadequacies. Representatives from the Women's Alliance, the student-run escort service SafeStreets, the Undergraduate Council ad hoc committee on campus security and the Harvard University Police Department debated the issue...
...introductory note to readers in the first issue, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III wrote, "You seldom have before you the complete text of policy statements that bear on college life. The Harvard College News, to be published four times a year, will attempt to address this problem...
...paper, which is funded entirely by advertisers, also aims to explain changes in extracurricular life at Harvard to students, faculty and administrators, Lacovara said...
Right-to-die questions generate powerful sparks of moral friction. They clash against two basic values, says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, an ethics think tank. "One is the sanctity of life, with its religious roots; the other is the technological imperative to do everything possible to save a life. Put together they are like a locomotive running at 100 miles an hour." The sweep of that force troubles many experts. Says George Annas of Boston University's School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that...
...mechanical support, pose particular problems. The American Medical Association and many ethicists believe even artificial nutrition and hydration is a medical treatment that may be withdrawn from terminally ill or irreversibly comatose patients. But others disagree; to them, food and water, even through a tube, represents the necessities of life and constitutes basic care. Some experts also debate whether there is a clear or a blurred line between withholding nourishment and the next step, injecting death-inducing drugs. Many worry about a slippery slope that could lead to legalized euthanasia and suicide, and a general devaluation of life, particularly...