Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard student handbook states that "Students who sell lecture or reading notes, papers, or translations or who are employed by a tutoring school or term paper company [...] may be required to withdraw." This regulation is intended to protect both professors and students: professors' work cannot be represented (or misrepresented) for profit without permission and compensation, and students cannot unfairly gain from their transcribing of another's ideas in an academic context...
Harvard demands that all tutoring done for money be done through the apparatus of the Bureau of Study Counsel, so that we as equals in the pursuit of knowledge do not exploit our fellow students. These restrictions are meant to protect the intellectual pursuits that Harvard at its best represents...
...University is right to stress the intellectual property rights of its professors and protect our academic community by prohibiting the sale of academic information to Web sites like Versity.com. When properly understood, these restrictions will help strengthen the bonds between students and professors and among fellow students. They will foster more cooperation and therefore more education within the Harvard academic community. These privileges, after all, are what we are paying to receive...
...City Councillor since 1996, Davis has been active in task forces for children in the city. Davis wants to increase affordable housing; make the city safe for pedestrians and bicycle riders; protect neighborhoods; and provide measures for healthy, well-educated children...
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