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...person per year. The U.N. similarly predicts that global meat consumption will double by 2050. To any observer, the prospect of ridding the population of carnivores appears rather bleak. Therefore, PETA has decided to follow a time-honored path: if you can’t beat them, co-opt them. In vitro technology would perhaps make everyone winners: the masses could enjoy a nice steak and the animal activists wouldn’t have see any cattle butchered for that steak.However, the legitimate question arises whether in vitro meat is a Pyrrhic victory for animal rights activists. The terms...
...increase their concern for the well-being of their charges. But as recent events at Harvard have proven, deans prefer to impose liability-proof safeguards—tedious paperwork for registering parties, imperious oversight by entryway proctors, and severely curtailed access to alcohol in general—rather than opt for the more arduous but perhaps more far-seeing approach of encouraging a culture of personal responsibility and maturity. Inevitably, the lawyerly advocates of the “nanny” response prevail...
...lowering the cost of access to scholarly work might be through the type of free-access program that Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passed in February, which places a professor’s work online for free, unless the professor chooses to opt out. The professors retain the copyright and anyone, Harvard affiliated or not, has free access. This repository program bypasses the copyright expenses and royalties that journals collect. Journals are not all costs however, and one negative of avoiding scholarly journals is the loss of the peer-review process. Yet programs like this...
...simple benches and overpaying together won’t even be able to eat together. As for the few lucky students who spent their breaks in Japan, facing an American imitation of a British interpretation of Japanese food will simply be too disappointing. They would do better to opt for the (very reasonably priced) small restaurants in the Porter Exchange instead.Algiers Coffee HouseOrientalism may be a discourse of the West, but there’s no denying that a meal at Algiers can conjure up memories of a variety of “exotic” vacations, including journeys...
...thus needs to take action against these trends. Ted Kennedy ’56 (D-Mass.), and other leading Democrats in the House of Representatives have begun to take the necessary steps. Kennedy and his political colleagues should be commended for trying to quell the growing tendency to opt for private rather than federal loans with a new bill called the “Strengthening Student Aid for All?...