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At a moment of such uncertainty and change for Harvard, a single universal truth about the community remains unaffected: that the University’s foremost priority must remain the improvement of the undergraduate experience. University President Lawrence H. Summers’ departure will bring many changes, but the place...
University President Lawrence H. Summers may be on his way out, and for Harvard College students, his departure has hardly gone unnoticed.In recent weeks, as rumors buzzed of Summers’ impending resignation, students perked up their ears. As the storm clouds gathered, many of campus’ more politically...
Citing these reports, as well as evidence that Coca-Cola has devastated the environment near its bottling plants in India, Swarthmore student activists lobbied for the passage of a Student Council resolution calling for administrative action. Students also circulated a petition that garnered hundreds of signatures.
One hundred and sixty-six years ago this week, Lord Palmerston, the great British Foreign Secretary, sent a letter to the Imperial Chinese government that paved the way for the 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese conflict, the “Opium War.” It’s a brilliantly...
The first type of divestment demand is first and foremost a tactic used by organizers to manufacture an opportunity to talk about the actual issues. In this light, Summers did the petition-circulators an immense favor: he catapulted a hopeless divestment call from obscure e-mail lists to the pages...