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...actual influence in either of these matters, the conflation of University policy and international human rights concerns into the single term “politics” reveals a disturbing underlying attitude of indifference and resignation. It suggests that University President Lawrence H. Summers is as autonomous of student opinion as is North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. This seems an absurd correlation—but if the students’ will is not meaningfully expressed through the organized leadership of the UC, it exerts influence over nothing. Condemning the UC’s vote has implications far beyond...
...training, many professors would likely be ill-equipped to offer career advice or to evaluate the merits of other professors in the classroom.As he has done at every Faculty meeting this fall, University President Lawrence H. Summers asked Kirby to lead the discussion and did not offer his own opinion on the review. In the wake of professors’ no confidence vote in his leadership last March, Summers has ceased all formal involvement with the review.Also at yesterday’s meeting, Gross announced that Quincy House Co-Masters Robert P. Kirshner, who is the Clowes professor of science...
...Huma’s intellectual curiosity and the quality of her scholarship have earned her the very high opinion of the History department faculty,” Janna Wasilewski, Farid’s thesis advisor, writes. Recently, a woman verbally assaulted Farid near the Yard, allegedly because Farid wears hejab, the Islamic headscarf...
...doesn’t seem feasible to me that I would relate to someone on such a deep level if we didn’t have that common ground,” she says. CULTURE, GENDER & (NO) SEXWhen it comes to interfaith relationships, religion often dictates broader differences in opinion beyond strict theology.Many observant Christian students, for instance, say they do not believe in having sex before marriage. This view differs from the mainstream college culture in which sex is common in romantic relationships, says Chiduzie C. Madubata ’06, an Episcopalian.“Christians consider...
...Opinion polls show a majority of South Africans supporting Mbeki's decision to axe Zuma, but it enraged the Deputy President's supporters on the left flank of the ruling party, particularly in its Youth League and among its Communist Party and union allies. They responded with a noisy public campaign to have Zuma reinstated and made the ANC's next presidential candidate when Mbeki's term expires in 2009. Zuma backers alleged their man was the victim of a conspiracy by ANC conservatives, including the president, and their depth of feeling was illustrated in at least one protest when...