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...Harvard School of Dental Medicine have already put in place similar regulations, so the question could be asked, why not the rest of Harvard? The difference lies in the mission of the each school: The rest of the schools of the University are not specifically health-care driven and ought not implement seemingly paternalistic policies simply to follow suit. That being said, the sizable body of evidence supporting the deleterious effects of cigarettes will hopefully encourage individual Harvard students, faculty, and administrators to voluntarily quit smoking. Unlike doctors, we do not have a professional responsibility to live healthily...
...Advocates of “tolerance” here at Harvard and beyond ought to be very mindful of which version they inadvertently are promoting...
...colonial period, and must face squarely the moral consequences of colonial slaughter of Native Americans. But it is questionable whether the arena of semiotics is appropriate for these confrontations to take place. The name of the Commonwealth itself stems etymologically from the exterminated Massachusett tribe of Algonquians. Ought we consider changing that as well (perhaps to something like South New Hampshire...
...Harvard community should be very aware of Islam, as it is one of the world’s most influential religions. We believe that Islam Awareness Week ought to continue, but in a way that does not foist Islamic doctrines upon everyone. We believe that students who resent the forceful infusion of theology with their Harvard experience should be spared the indignity, and we believe strongly that our community should not grant license to any religious group, minority or otherwise, to use a loudspeaker to declare false the profoundly important and personal beliefs of others...
...commander-in-chief. Last fall, in a comment to the Arab television channel Al-Jazeera, Fallon said a "constant drumbeat of conflict" out of Washington about war with Iran was "not helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war, and that is what we ought to be working for." Yet, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have also maintained that the current confrontation with Iran should be resolved diplomatically. But Fallon, when he got outside of Washington, let his independent streak - a tradition among naval officers...