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Recently, Harvard announced the establishment of a $50 million fund to be spent over the next decade with the goal of increasing the number of women and minority faculty. While we understand that this figure is merely a number—one that guarantees more newspaper headlines than real progress??it does show that Harvard takes the promotion of female faculty serious enough to pledge a substantial monetary commitment. Fifty million dollars cannot improve entrenched sexism within academic departments (that demands intense lobbying by Summers and his administration), but it can improve just about everything else...
...idea that we are fighting a noble, worthy, but ultimately futile rearguard action against the unstoppable tide of “progress?? is one that constantly haunts many conservatives, but is entirely rejected by my friend Dave. How? The answer seems to be that the optimistic conservatives are economically oriented; since they view human existence and action as value-maximizing or at least predictable, they are sure that, if only they can get people the right information, they will choose the better policy. Thus Dave’s confidence that Americans will soon reform their education system...
...chopping block and that no one will be placed on death row for his or her offenses as a minor (so long as the Supreme Court does not revisit this decision). This shows that the U.S., against the odds, is still tiptoeing down the road towards moral progress??the road that the civilized world has been traveling for centuries. But this is not enough. The state-sponsored murder of the irresponsible is execrable, but the state-sponsored murder of calculating adults isn’t saintly, either. America must move to abolish the death penalty...
...selfishly limit the “understanding of human diseases.” Phrases such as these take the debate outside of the confines of stem cells and place it in territory that is either disingenuous– the accusation of being against “progress??—or entirely demagogical—the accusation that opponents of stem cell research are against people such as Christopher Reeve walking again...
...Science and Technology Education Committee, member and Professor of Anthropology Daniel E. Lieberman ’86 said they are making “incredible progress?? and are geared toward finishing on target...