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...school—public or private, urban or suburban—if their child’s current school fails to measure up under the new accountability system. Currently, NCLB gives families only the choice of an alternative public school within the same school district, a choice so meaningless it has been exercised by less than one percent of all eligible parents...
Eliminating investments by proxy in morally reprehensible firms may prove challenging, but if divestment came without sacrifice, the symbolic gesture would be meaningless. By refusing to support corporations that underwrite death even if it comes at a cost, Harvard makes an important statement about acting for a greater good than simply maximizing endowment returns. As long as Harvard continues to hold clearly traceable investments in PetroChina and Sinopec, that statement is robbed of its validity. We hope Harvard sticks to its word and makes divestment a reality...
...second issue is that this model would require eliminating the printed version of the CUE guide, presently distributed to every suite at the beginning of the year. (Loss of CUE privileges becomes a fairly meaningless deterrent if every student gets a paper copy in their room, no matter what.) This will, admittedly, inconvenience any student who prefers the printed guide over the online equivalent. We should be prepared to leave those students’ preferences unsatisfied, however; with the online version of the CUE now tied in so thoroughly to the online course catalogue, the paper version?...
...comments will be moderated only for the grossest forms of indiscretion, rather than edited and condensed into a single sentence with a bunch of adjectives in quotation marks. When teachers are unexceptional, students’ complaints should get a full, public hearing. To simplify them is to make them meaningless...
...affairs in the Ivy League is one of extreme stagnation. A postseason tournament, even if it only included the top four teams, would give teams at the bottom of the standings an incentive to fight for that crucial last playoff spot, rather than to play out the string in meaningless games. As it stands now, every year is the same, with Princeton or Penn coming out on top, and every year a multitude of pointless games are played down the stretch between the non-P’s in front of empty arenas on campuses full of students apathetic with...