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...case against academic boycotts has recently gained even more momentum. A group of four academics from Oxford University wrote a commentary in the journal Nature last month arguing that scientific boycotts should be undertaken only in the most extreme circumstances. Indeed, the International Council for Science forbids scientists from participating in boycotts because science is supposed to be an apolitical activity. (This is a hopeful, if slightly naïve view. Saddam’s germ warfare scientists might prove an exception...
...aware that whilst the opinions below may not be reflective of Oxford student opinion as a whole, or the facts as you know them at Harvard, it would hardly be in the spirit of contrast for me to write anything tainted by research. So here, instead, are a sprinkling of the general bigotries which we hold about American college life...
University funding. You have it and we don’t. Not a term goes by in Oxford without a disgruntled don heading over to the other side of the pond citing the abysmal pay offered by this supposedly “world-class” institution. Oxford is a primarily government-funded institution, and government funding has fallen dramatically since the 1980s. In short, times are hard, and it’s no wonder that our research ratings are slipping and we haven’t won a Nobel Prize in decades. Also, whilst Harvard possesses an endowment that...
...disaster, since it is likely to damage “access,” seen by many here to be the real issue in higher education policy. To explain the depth of feeling on the subject: it is a scandal to end all scandals if someone is accepted into Oxford following a parental donation, whereas I hear that over there you can deal with the idea of letting in a couple of sub-standard students if it means a few extra libraries for everyone else. In the ongoing debate in Britain, Harvard is constantly cited by both sides: by lefties...
Natalie R. Toms is in the second year of a Politics, Philosophy, and Economics degree at St. Edmund College, Oxford. She is the editor of The Oxford Student...