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...more faithfully serve its mission, the IOP should focus its on-campus programs more on substance and less on the shallow side of politics. Formal events, while they admittedly play a role in today’s schmooze-filled political scene, do little to promote the goal of politics. In their place should come more programs that engage the Harvard community by informing and discussing serious issues in a productive way, with the potential to effect change. Instead of just reacting to issues, those organizing these programs could pro-actively formulate issues to discuss...
Given its assets and limitations, the IOP must first enhance its own on-campus political programs before going national. Leading by example in Cambridge is the best way the IOP can influence national student political participation...
Specifically, we heard members of Harvard Law School’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) recently announce their desire to introduce a code to ban offensive, racially-charged speech after a number of on-campus incidents involving racial slurs. It was not without some historic irony that Harvard’s BLSA called for codes proscribing offensive words; after all, it was in this very same law school’s marketplace of ideas that eventual Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., studied, taught and vigorously defended the constitutional right of free, unfettered speech...
...leading university, Harvard must continue to be very protective of its name and academics. The University should move cautiously when creating and expanding existing programs into the hybrid format in order to guarantee that all these programs are held to the same intellectual rigor and high standards of current on-campus programs. Fortunately, accompanying this recent change, the University has indicated its intention to move cautiously when expanding distance learning...
...residency requirement will remain in effect for undergraduates and doctoral candidates. This limitation is good; it will maintain Harvard’s on-campus community and ensure that the crucial experience for undergrads—learning in a supportive, interactive, rigorous academic setting—remains central to the Harvard experience. The administration must now face the challenge of striking the right balance between extending Harvard’s academic opportunities and retaining its own vibrant intellectual campus...