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There would also be a direct and tangible effect on the Harvard community if only five percent of the entering class took advantage of a possible two-year deferment. In peer discussions and social interaction these students would express their views, drawing on experience to form important cultural bridges. A tour in the service would also offer a temporary break from academia into a journey of self-discovery, while at the same time providing service to country and community. Something is lacking in this couch-potato era when tests of one’s fortitude are so rare that...
...Brussels and ex-Home Secretary in Britain who pushed reforms on divorce and homosexuality before helping to found the Social Democratic Party in 1981; in Oxfordshire, England. A distinguished journalist and acclaimed biographer, Roy Jenkins penned Gladstone (1995) and Churchill (2001). In 1987 Jenkins was made a life peer and elected Chancellor of Oxford University. He served as a mentor to Prime Minister Tony Blair, who described him last week as "one of the most remarkable people to ever grace British politics...
...letter, Kirby wrote that revisions would in fact bring Harvard’s “policies to the forefront in comparison with peer institutions...
While on the trip, he helped develop a peer education model for HIV/AIDS in Vietnam...
Academic dishonesty is a serious concern, and honor codes can be part of the solution, but schools must stay away from “one-strike” policies. Rather, they should make peer-pressure and shame the reason that students choose not to cheat...