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...feel very proud to be a part of a small group—but nonetheless a very important group—of individuals who are not afraid to say that the world is in a terrible mess and at a moment of deep and profound crisis,” says Jardine...
Clearly, there are profound problems with the UM’s bureaucracy and membership procedures—problems that deny students worshipping at the ACOI all the resources Harvard can offer. To address these issues, the UM must overhaul the transparency and efficiency of its membership procedures. It can start by actually sticking to its bylaws and notifying applicants of their membership status in May. Further, the UM must consider applications twice a year, in March and October. This step will speed acceptance of deserving members and force the UM to provide more feedback to rejected applicants. In short, twice...
...Greg Pak’s award-winning Robot Stories for this week only. A collection of four short films that explore the potential impact of future artificial technology on human relationships, Robot Stories earns the Crimson Arts stamp of approval for combining its conversation-sparking material with a remarkably profound understanding of human emotion. Particularly strong is Pak’s sympathy towards the challenges of motherhood, expressed in the film’s most effective segment, “My Robot Baby,” wherein a mother adopts a mechanical baby to prove herself adept at adoption. When...
Instead, the 37-year-old Green says he wants to make a new generation aware of this profound moral dilemma and its renewed relevance. While some directors were doing publicity junkets with the national press or mounting aggressive Oscar campaigns, Green and co-director Bill Siegel embarked on an irregular tour of college campuses this fall. They continue to take time every few weeks to travel across the country, screening their film for students and interacting with them afterward. The day of his Harvard screening, Green conducted another showing at Brandeis University, and in the days before that...
...public debate over stem cells is currently hindered by the absence of a common lexicon with which to delineate the profound ethical questions involved. For example: Are frozen embryos whole human beings, or are they somehow less than human? If the latter, when do embryos officially pass the threshold of “personhood”? Moreover, if blastocysts are not miniscule human lives, then what exactly are they...