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...beautiful, easily customizable portal. Students would only have to navigate the clunky, seven-year-old my.harvard interface to print their study cards and fill out their CUE guide evaluations. At least that was the idea until Harvard intervened. Since nearly all course websites require PIN authentication, the portal’s use of course Web site materials caught the ire of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services, which demanded that course material be taken off CrimsonConnect.com. Hadfield, who is also a Crimson editor, had virtually no choice but to comply, and students have no choice...
...People had surmised that some of the content was reproduced content from course syllabi or content that normally one would need their Harvard PIN in order to see,” Levine said...
Hadfield responded by removing password-protected information from the “courses” section of his site, which now comprises only information for two courses that make their sites publicly available without a Harvard PIN...
...Anything that’s PIN-protected is PIN-protected for a reason,” said University spokesman John D. Longbrake. “We would expect that if anyone wanted to use any of that material, they would go to the originator of that material and use them...
...wake of such a sickening tragedy as Virginia Tech, it’s tempting to pin the blame on whoever we can. In our grief, however, we must remember to divorce the murderer’s race from the murderer himself. These terrible incidents should be seen as they really are—isolated acts of evil committed by isolated people...