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...example, one that simply says that racist speech is bad without punishing the students who say it—will have a chilling effect on discourse. It would be tragic if students were reluctant to discuss diversity issues on campus for fear of repercussions under such broad, meaningless guidelines. The administration of the Harvard Business School, for example, recently invoked a very general Community Standards regulation that students have “respect for the rights, differences and dignity of others,” in order to intimidate the editor-in-chief of a publication that printed a cartoon...
...rewards. Using baby monkeys and artificial "mother" dolls in a series of experiments at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in the 1950s and '60s, Harlow proved the babies would cling to the dolls even when food was offered elsewhere. Love, which other psychologists had dismissed as irrelevant and scientifically meaningless, was in fact the linchpin of mental health...
Drive 80 yards for a meaningless touchdown in the waning moments of the game. Matt Fratto’s nine-yard TD catch narrowed the lead to 35 points, which assured that the worst loss would remain the Crimson’s 47-7 destruction...
...encouraging the cancellation of Irish poet Tom Paulin’s poetry reading, University President Lawrence H. Summers has again moved to suppress the free exchange of ideas at Harvard (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture,” Nov. 13). Free speech is meaningless if it only holds for the politically correct. As a concerned individual, Summers could have personally joined the protesters planning to boycott Paulin’s reading. By acting as president of the University, however, he exposes antidemocratic impulses inappropriate for a university president. For “Ayatollah?...
...corner execution would be meaningless if Harvard didn’t keep its opponents off the scoreboard, but the Crimson has done that with increasing frequency this season. Harvard closed out the year with three straight shutouts to bring its overall total to nine...