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...three types of cases: petitions, academic review, and disciplinary cases. Petitions include fairly standard academic requests like taking time off, registering late, or counting courses not taken at Harvard, and take up most of the Board’s docket. It would be grossly inefficient for students to be present for such routine decisions. But in disciplinary cases and academic reviews, which can lead to students being asked to leave Harvard for a year or longer, students are often not allowed to speak to the Board. Indeed, they are only allowed to appear “in certain disciplinary cases?...
Wade also highlighted the tolerance and democratic culture present in his predominantly Muslim country...
This controversy has nothing to do with academic freedom. Summers remains entirely free to present his views to university audiences and to the public at large, and I look forward to the day when he defend his views in public, whether at UC or elsewhere...
...disease that can cause retardation, deafness, and skeletal and superficial deformation. Riedl’s will be one of 15 contemporary documentaries screening in Cambridge this weekend as part of the United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival. The films, chosen from around 400 submissions last October, deal with present-day issues around the world—from civil war in Colombia and the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to an HIV-positive orphan in China and a group of Sierra Leonean refugee musicians. The opening screening will take place at the Kennedy School of Government. The subsequent...
...This last March, member states invested heavily on marketing campaigns to remind citizens about the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the genesis of the present Union. To the horror of Euro-skeptics around the world, the Union—which started in Rome with six countries in an economic alliance—has since grown relentlessly, adapting and surviving more than one failed referendum. In fact, the French and Dutch in 2005 were not the first to reject the EU; the Norwegians, for example, repeatedly voted against joining. The main problem with the 2005 vote was that many...