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...October, The Crimson editorialized against the latest round of “pre-litigation letters” the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent to college students. Warning the recipients that they may be liable for $9,250 per illegally downloaded song, the RIAA pointed recipients to a site where they can buy peace with a credit card number and a promise not to do it again. The price point is chosen with skill: large enough to hurt, but small enough that litigating would cost more. An industry spokesman responded in The Crimson that thievery is thievery. Bills were...
...While both Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith and University President Drew G. Faust have said that planning for the program pre-dated any governmental pressure, Smith conceded that scrutiny from national lawmakers may have pushed up the release of the initiative...
...achievements of women, and of multiculturalism. Like all major transformations, they have come at a certain price. In some ways they have deepened the contrast between undergraduate and graduate education—the latter being inevitably more professional—and tempted many to look at the undergraduates as pre-professionals who need to become specialized early, which is a mistake: the laborious exhilaration of learning a profession should not push aside the broadening of the minds and horizons of the undergraduates, which will make them deeper and subtler specialists later. Thanks to the charismatic Homi Bhabha, the Humanities Center...
...mandatory introductory courses for concentrators in history and social studies (the “interdisciplinary concentration in the social sciences at Harvard College”) are confined to Western authors and theorists. While no longer mandated (the history department’s current requirements are one course in pre-modern history, one course in Western history, one course in non-Western history, and six additional half-courses in the department or related fields), the traditional survey courses that are so fundamental to a background in historical study have a Western bias. The measly two weeks spent on European expansion...
Gene Corbin, the executive director of PBHA, said that the job will help fill the void in pre-professional experience for students looking for careers in the non-profit world...