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...most part, the ISSCR's draft follows guidelines released by the National Academy of Sciences in the US, with a few notable exceptions. The NAS recommended that each institute establish its own Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, while ISSCR is suggesting a broader approach, allowing for this review to occur at the institute, national or international level. Most importantly, the ISSCR will provide researchers with template documents that cover critical safety and ethical issues such as informed consent that review boards need to consider in trials involving the use of human embryonic stem cells - and even the transport of these...
...Fourth Amendment, which requires probable cause and warrants for such investigations. The Founding Fathers never said the Bill of Rights had to pass a popularity test in order to be enforced. The phones of suspected terrorists have been and should continue to be monitored - with court supervision. Without such oversight, the possibility for abuses of private information is very real. Margery Winters West Simsbury, Connecticut, U.S. Ben Franklin is thought to have written, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." I am not willing to give up the constitutional...
...presided over the University’s high-profile diversity initiative last year. Elena Kagan has won over students and faculty at Harvard Law School since her appointment in 2002. And Provost Steven E. Hyman has been an influential force in the University’s administration, with oversight of all of Harvard’s academic programs as well as the expansion into Allston.The most high-profile Harvard insider whose name has been mentioned is Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, a former president of Duke University and Wellesley College and a member of the presidential search committee.Keohane, however, told...
...repeatedly harrassed—segment of the University population that the administration is unconcerned about their situation. In much the same way, Harvard has not taken the concrete steps it should to begin to solve the problems of race relations on campus. But it’s not simply oversight that prompts administration neglect of these issues. It’s fear, mostly of alumni. The men who run this University think those who went there in years past and who now provide its financial support will react with alarm should they become enlightened and allow too many female professors...
...working group that convened over the past year sought primarily to determine how the Board could, in the words of overseer Paul A. Buttenwieser ’60, “make its oversight function more efficient, more useful, and more timely...