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Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with excelling at raising money. But, as the Haiti disaster has demonstrated, the main problem is not raising enough money; rather, it is making sure that donated goods arrive in an efficient manner. Harvard should facilitate finding solutions to fundamental problems like this, as well as aiding with temporary relief efforts. To do this, the administration should create a prize program named HarvardforHumanity. Modeled after the Harvard Catalyst and InnoCentive Prize for Innovation, HarvardforHumanity would be a prize competition, soliciting both answers and questions to different challenges...
...only would HarvardforHumanity attract attention to Harvard, but it will also attract the right attention. Rather than being in the news for huge drops in its endowment, Harvard could be in the news for finding a new way to deliver supplies to disaster stricken areas. Most importantly, however, HarvardforHumanity positions Harvard as a leader in humanitarian ideals. As a premier research institute and university, Harvard has clearly set itself a goal to advance human knowledge. But in translating that goal to undergraduate education, perhaps we are aiming too low by just educating the next generation of humanitarian leaders. Harvard students...
...minimum standards of food and education for children. These are basic human rights, not luxuries offered by the UNRWA to encourage more births. To even call the subsidies “pro-natal” is extremely misleading, since the aid is clearly intended for children that already exist, rather than parents. Furthermore, even if the cessation of these subsidies would eventually normalize Gaza’s population, which we do not believe to be true, this shift would not take effect for nearly decades after the aid’s removal. Relying on a policy that works so slowly...
...clearly overreacted in perpetuating the genocide meme created by Electronic Intifada and others. While the 1948 U.N. Convention does delineate “measures intended to prevent births” as a form of genocide, Kramer was not advocating an ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s citizens, but rather a shift in the average age of their population with the intention of, in his opinion, benefiting them in the long run. Considering the content of Kramer’s speech, labeling his policy as “genocide” is unfair, and steers the debate away from...
Basketball standout Victoria Lippert has a rather surprising item to notch on to her growing lists of accomplishments: a black belt in taekwondo. The freshman admits to trying a number of sports growing up before finally getting serious about basketball in high school. But for the Harvard women’s basketball team, her choice to pick up the ball rather than keep the belt was a blessing...