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...midterms, finished theses, and confirmed spring break plans, 16 Harvard students studying abroad in France found themselves in the middle of a riot-torn nation at the center of international media attention. Hundreds of thousands of French students have been occupying university campuses, on strike from classes, in protest of a new labor law, known as the Contrat Première Embauche. The law will allow employers to fire workers under 26 within a two-year trial period without advance notice. People opposed to the law fear it will worsen the already bleak job market for the younger generation. Harvard...
...Harvard still has not announced a divestiture from the Russian oil firm Tatneft, despite that fact that other schools—including Amherst, Stanford, and the University of California—have cut ties to Tatneft to protest that company’s links to the Khartoum regime. In its most recent filing with federal regulators on Feb. 9, Harvard revealed that it owned 134,050 shares in Sinopec, also known as the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation. Those shares were worth a total of $8.3 million on the New York Stock Exchange at noon today. Since Sept...
...taken are basically bureaucratic in nature. I actually loved the lectures in my Quantitative Reasoning Core (Peter Ellison’s “Counting People”), and I was happy to absorb what I could of my Science A (again, the contrarian in me decided to protest the Core, and so I took Earth and Planetary Sciences 5, which was fascinating, but you can only imagine how well that midterm went). I’m not anti-intellectual, I just don’t like wasting my time—in fact, I think many of these Cores...
Though many of the French high school and college students marching in nationwide demonstrations this week aren't old enough to vote, their protest movement is already influencing the run-up to next year's presidential elections. As teachers, parents, and labor unions have joined growing opposition to a government law designed to loosen labor markets and battle dizzying youth unemployment, presidential hopefuls among conservatives and the leftist opposition alike have been forced to scramble to survive the rising tide of unrest - or try riding it to their advantage...
Many students agreed with SLAM’s sentiment, but doubted the practicality of a switch from Coke. Larissa D. Koch ’08 says “There are enough people who are very thoroughly attached that there would be significant protest.” Usmani, for his part, says Coke-lovers have “a valid point,” but adds, “I have faith in Harvard students. I don’t think anyone can turn their back.” Unfortunately for SLAM, neither Harvard students nor the Harvard administration show...