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...half lead against Lehigh and held off late charges from the Mountain Hawks to win, 83-75, on Saturday at Lavietes Pavilion. Senior center Brian Cusworth led the Crimson (2-3) with 20 points while sophomore guard Drew Housman had a season-high 18. Last week’s Patriot League Player of the Week, senior guard Jose Olivero, paced Lehigh (2-5) with 15 points but was only 5-of-17 from the floor. Trailing 41-22 at halftime, the Mountain Hawks scored on eight of their first nine possessions to start the second half. They cut the Harvard...
...points in Harvard’s first two games, respectively, was held to only six on 1-of-6 from the floor. Cusworth did grab a game-high seven rebounds.Harvard will look to return to the .500 mark on the young season when it returns home to play Patriot League foe Holy Cross on tomorrow night. Tip-off at Lavietes Pavilion is scheduled for 7 p.m.—Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...argument in favor of the Patriot Act’s surveillance provisions is that not subjecting private records to scrutiny creates a safe haven for ne’er-do-wells and that those who are doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear. But it strikes me as absurd, and even somewhat insulting to the investigative talents of FBI agents, to suggest that the government needs to compromise civil rights in order to catch the terrorists in our midst...
...other tools at its disposal, why does the FBI need to lurk in the shadows, peering over the shoulders of this country’s researchers? I don’t recall the last time an act of terrorism was perpetrated with the help of LexisNexis. Unless the Patriot Act presumes to also prevent plagiarism, the only thing the FBI’s snooping at Harvard seems likely to prevent is academics feeling safe in conducting their own research, particularly in fields that are rightly becoming the focus of new expansion of the University’s academic horizons...
...hazards of working on the frontier of knowledge are intense without the Patriot Act’s help. By creating a culture of fear in academic circles, the deep probing powers given to investigators by the act allowed them to present us with the most crippling hindrance to academic freedom imaginable. And as Canadians head to the hills with their private information, it might be time for those of us who do research in this country to start feeling more than a little uneasy...