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Harvard professors, students, and a former corporate vice president urged students in a panel discussion at Harvard Business School (HBS) last night to use their positions as future elites to help reduce the “achievement gap” among racial and socioeconomic groups. This was the second event of “Raps on the Gap,” a University-wide interdisciplinary discussion series sponsored by Harvard’s Achievement Gap Initiative. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) lecturer and Achievement Gap Initiative Director Ronald F. Ferguson began the panel by comparing test scores among different racial groups...
Five former Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldiers debated “Breaking The Silence”—a controversial Harvard Hillel-hosted exhibit on the experiences of troops in the occupied Palestinian territories—during a panel yesterday evening...
...panel, Kaplan said the exhibit’s portrayal of Israel was unnecessarily critical, adding that it’s impossible to completely reconcile the security needs of Israel with the nation’s moral aims. “As long as there is an army in Israel, there will be moral problems,” she said...
...issue,” going so far as to say the quasi-taboo word “shma-shmor-shmin.” In an effort to open up the abortion debate, at least on campus if not in the hills, Harvard Students for Choice hosted a panel last Friday entitled “Hollywood’s Pregnant Pause.” As part of Women’s Week, the event, organized by Harvard Students for Choice co-directors Catherine P. Humphreville ’10 and Sean P. Mascali ’08, featured speakers who screened...
...modest subdivision near downtown Modesto, Calif., used to be someone's dream home. But it stands out in a row of similarly hued homes where many have a "For Sale" sign planted in their front yards. The two-story appears battered: its address has been scratched on a front panel and weeds choke what may once have been a manicured lawn. And then there is the overwhelming stench of human waste and stale beer. There has been no electricity and no running water since the bank repossessed it months ago. Still, at least three young men have been squatting here...