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...most recent--and controversial--charge links fluoridation with bone cancer. In June the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a watchdog organization, petitioned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to list fluoride in tap water as a carcinogen. The group cited "decades of peer-review studies" on fluoride's "ability to mutate DNA and its known deposition on the ends of growing bones, the site of osteosarcoma"--a rare, often fatal cancer that affects mainly boys...
...median wage, and it is not reasonable to demand Harvard should think otherwise. Of course, the $20 per hour rallying cry is probably part of SLAM’s posturing. Their real goal is likely lower, more in line with the $16-$17 hourly wages for janitors at some peer institutions around Boston. Even this lower figure is too high. Dining hall staff will renegotiate their contract this spring. Right now, their wages are far lower than the wages paid to janitors. If janitors are granted $17 an hour, then why should dining hall employees demand anything less? This...
...case, Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J., once overstated its SAT scores by more than 200 points. In 1993, even Harvard was found to have overstated its SAT scores by 15 points. Furthermore, a large component of the U.S. News rankings—25 percent—are peer rankings. In the November 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Colin Diver, the president of Reed College, said that some schools routinely rated their peer institutions into the bottom tier so as to propel themselves upwards. A proliferation of rankings without peer evaluations might lead colleges to more honestly evaluate...
...policies should be made even more liberal. The current blanket restrictions for the 15 countries in question should have an exception procedure whereby students can apply to get credit and funding for travel and programs in restricted areas on a case-by-case basis. Such procedures already exist at peer institutions like Yale, whose system of restriction waivers allows students to explore normally restricted opportunities by petition. Harvard should ensure that students demonstrate their understanding of the risks involved and perhaps talk to some sort of adviser to make sure they have exhausted alternative options to travel. We understand that...
...Alliance (BGLTSA). BGLTSA board members covered the table with information packets, rainbow ribbons, and two posters—one for BGLT students to sign, titled “Out and Proud,” and one for allies to sign, titled “We support our queer peers.” When the board members closed up shop at 2:00 p.m., each poster had about 40 signatures. “We don’t have massive anti-gay protests,” said Noa Grayevsky ’07, the BGLTSA Community Chair...