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...continue to suffer through cold and awkward trips to CVS at 2 a.m. Harvard freshmen—stereotypically not the most socially nimble and suave pack—should not be burdened with the additional obstacle of locating contraception at the off-chance of sexual success while their older peers receive condoms in laundry rooms. In addition, timid freshmen’s unfettered access to condoms will eliminate the awkward and potentially prohibitive face-to-face interactions, which are often requisite for obtaining condoms from the Yard’s peer health groups...
...Summers understood the embarrassing fact that Harvard is great because we admit great students, not because we give them a great faculty-led education. Of course, the students know this too, explaining why Harvard students rate their educational experience less positively than the students at almost all of our peer institutions. Summers led the charge to revamp the curriculum and improve the quality of undergraduate life. He wanted to hold faculty accountable for their teaching. Some faculty faulted him for playing too central a role in the curricular review, and some faculty resented being told (fairly or unfairly) that they...
...Room 13 for last-minute peer counseling...
...Levy and Rose still believed that the ultimate solution had to come through a digital strategy. In-house consumer research indicated that most people didn't want to break the law, and that music fans would buy music online if the experience was better and easier than the illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) sites. So the company took a huge gamble in November 2002, announcing that EMI would license all of its legally-available music to anyone who would pay its set wholesale prices and meet its terms. And it began encouraging artists to make their music available online. Most...
What might such guidelines look like? The Corporation should look to both the standards set by its peer institutions and the criteria set forth by the Harvard Corporation in the PetroChina decision. A prudent place to start would be an unequivocal ban on investments that facilitate governments responsible for committing or supporting Congress-declared genocides There is no excuse for Sinopec, which is involved in Sudan in the same way as PetroChina, to remain in Harvard’s portfolio—since the University has taken a moral stance against genocide in Sudan, it behooves them to be consistent...