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Change, of course, begins at home, and Faust enters her term with momentum already waiting for her. The Harvard undergraduate body voted in December by an 88 percent vote that the University ought to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 89 percent of 1990 levels by 2020; the student council of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences agreed. The University already runs its own Green Campus Initiative, which has done tremendous work in bringing our campus up to the latest environmental standards, investing over six million dollars in 85 environmental projects and $100,000 in renewable energy research...
That future holds enormous opportunities. President Faust will oversee the largest expansion of Harvard’s campus since Pusey’s tenure. When Harvard breaks new ground in Allston, President Faust ought to emulate Pusey’s moral leadership and boldly assert environmental standards for a new century. Harvard is an academic exemplar sitting inside a “city upon a hill.” It will not have many chances to define itself in bricks and mortar like it will in the next few years. Its leaders must provide a vision of a sustainable 21st...
...project of good environmental stewardship, though, is not limited to within Harvard’s walls. Faust ought to begin by committing our own campus to the highest of standards. But to ignore our transformative influence on the outside world is to default on the responsibility that the Harvard presidency carries. Today environmentalism occupies a peculiar place between research and action; it is gathering steam but its whistle has not yet rung. It awaits its champions. It has found one in Al Gore; it could use many others. As she sets the tone for academic institutions everywhere, Faust can show...
This is not meant as a moral question, although some would have moral qualms with this technology. Mosquitoes, one might argue, are a product of nature (or a deity) and ought not to be altered for humans’ benefit. Thankfully, few subscribe to this argument. Saving millions of human lives each year is a far higher priority than preserving the integrity of the mosquito genome out of respect for the genome itself...
...interest of protecting a “moral being” whose definition is strongly influenced by a tradition intolerant toward gays. That the legislation seems to be so clearly motivated by such conservative homophobia fundamentally violates that very notion of tolerance that our educational institutions ought to promote. But beyond our objections to the discriminatory nature of the legislation, we are also concerned with the impact that such a law will have on sexual and health education. By denying students the opportunity to discuss “human sexuality” in any extracurricular context, the legislature is inappropriately...