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...revoke the security access badges of 72 workers at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport was presented as part of an effort to identify and eliminate potential terror risks at the heart of one of Europe ' s largest transport hubs. But skeptical voices question whether politics influenced the decision. Deputy prefect in charge of security, Jacques Lebrot, told the media he had acted on the basis of a year-long intelligence inquiry that had identified the workers as regulars of fundamentalist mosques, acquaintances of suspected radicals, or travelers to such Islamist hot spots as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. One employee...
...potential donors, Harvard is astoundingly inept at explaining simple policy changes to its own students.Take as an example the creation of Harvard’s new peer-advising program, of which I am fortunate to be a part. Last year, instead of announcing that the popular, 25-year-old Prefect Program would henceforth be better funded and better trained than ever before, the College simply said that the program would no longer exist, and would instead be “morphed into something else.”Anywhere else on the face of the earth, such a statement probably would...
Undergraduate Council Student Affairs Committee chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08, a former prefect and current peer adviser, said he liked to think of the new program as “prefecting-plus...
...retains the social aspect of the prefect program, but it adds the academic advising that students need,” Petersen said...
Friday’s training session did not set forth a specific policy for peer advisers who see their advisees at a party. The prefect program did not allow prefects to drink in front of their prefectees, and prefects were expected to leave a party if first-years in their entryway were in attendance. According to peer adviser Eva E.M. Schlitz ’09, the message given at Friday’s training was for peer advisers to use their judgement to preserve their advising relationship with their students...