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...undergrads an openness and inquisitiveness. Teaching undegraduates is a special privelege (except when they worry too much about grades).4.FM: You also teach Government 1093: “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature.” What sparked your interest in biotechnology?MJS: Serving on the President??s Council on Bioethics, which I did for four years. It thrust me into debates about stem cell policy, cloning, and genetic engineering. I became fascinared by these topics and brought them into my teaching and writing. One year, I brought my junior seminar to Washington to observe...
...declaration is meaningless, especially since it is only a non-binding “sense of the Senate” resolution, which cannot officially influence the president??s foreign policy. The move is generally recognized as symbolic posturing designed to aggravate relations. It also reduces the meaning of the word “terrorism” from actions characterized by their deliberate use of civilian death and terror to further a goal, to a nasty word used to describe those we don’t like...
...editorial “Squashing Summers” (Sept. 20) admits that Lawrence H. Summers “was not a perfect president?? of Harvard but excoriates the hundreds of University of California (UC) faculty who objected to his planned talk to the UC Board of Regents as representing “the worst of academia.” Chair Richard Blum invited Summers to address a private dinner for the Regents, and then retracted the invitation after faculty objected...
...before he arrived, the smoothness of the president??s visit was far from assured...
...Responding to Petersen’s remarks, Staff questioned the UC president??s authority to determine whether Crimson Reading would be coming back to the Coop against Murphy’s wishes...