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...group came close to a formal debate over the presence of the Reserve Officers Training Corps’ (ROTC) presence on campus, but Gusmorino quashed any possibility that a bill would be written for a floor debate, saying that the time spent on debate would likely be contentious and meaningless...
Many proponents of a living wage, including The Crimson, see it as obvious that Harvard should go beyond the committee’s recommendations and guarantee employees a reasonable standard of living by adopting a living wage. But this position is meaningless, because one cannot insist upon safeguarding living standards without defining what those standards are. How noble it is to cry gallantly for a “living wage” without ever defining what such a wage would be. It seems so easy to support something called a “living wage,” but unless...
...also gives states the crucial task of defining "proficiency": what score do students need to pass the tests? If the bar is set too low, the legislation will be meaningless. But there's also a risk in demanding too much. Warns Dan Koretz, a Harvard education professor who specializes in high-stakes assessments: "If the bar is set too high, it becomes impossible to meet by legitimate ends. There will be enormous pressure to take short cuts. You'll see a dangerous over-emphasis on test preparation and cheating...
...Boston Globe, in a recent expose on this subject, revealed the truly shocking data that at other schools in the Ivy League, fewer than half of students graduate with honors. Indeed, at Cornell the number was lower than 10 percent. Some naive people have suggested that these differences are meaningless and taken out of context—that more students graduating with honors at Harvard simply indicates that honors means something different here from other places...
There are few moments in history when a lifesaving chance emerges. Now is the time for the world to save Afghan women. But simply replacing the Taliban rulers with a combination of Northern Alliance tribesmen (who have a just marginally less gory past) and other warlords may be meaningless to women...