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...speech when she said, “We need to do better.” Faculty at Harvard’s Center for the Environment should work closely with President Faust and the rest of the University administration to establish the economic base necessary for campus greening. In our pursuit of sustainability, we need to set quantifiable benchmarks for the near future. The University should take a cue from Boston and adopt a University-wide emissions reduction target. Until rhetoric and symbolic action are replaced by a commitment to lower emissions, Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions will simply...
...article on Obama's mother--one of the best I have read--drags you into the complex worlds of poverty, biracial living, racism and the pursuit of knowledge. Obama knows these issues better than many or all of the other, born-with-a-golden-spoon candidates. Prabhduev Konana, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...seems counter-intuitive for the creator of a Web site devoted to annotating classic works of literature and blogging about popular courses at Harvard to be so opposed to an ostensibly comparable pursuit to his own. Sites like Sparknotes.com—another Harvard alum creation—and Cliffnotes.com have been around for nearly a decade, providing apathetic students a quick and easy 30-minute Idiot’s Guide to not sounding like a moron in class. But those sites are so...high-school...
...Senior Lecturer on Chemistry Gregory Tucci, Eisele began his first independent study course in the spring of his junior year, while also pursuing an unpaid internship at Harpoon Brewery.Eisele’s mother, Anne Eisele, says she was supportive yet surprised by her son’s academic pursuit. “At first I thought he was joking,” she says. “I didn’t even realize that Harvard had an independent study program.”During his internship at Harpoon, Eisele worked three times a week for 10 hours each...
...from it. To me, the project included all the reactions it generated.” But some VES concentrators, like Intiya Isaza-Figueroa ’10, questioned this method of generating response to one’s artistic work. “Art in college is an academic pursuit, and should conform to academic, moral, and ethical standards,” Isaza-Figueroa said. “What she did was not mentally or physically healthy, for her or the people around her.” Yale students expressed surprise and disgust at Shvarts’ mode of artistic...