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Continuing down this road will be a calamity for Harvard for several reasons...
...custodial and security personnel across campus—has begun a listening tour with professors, secretaries, managers, deans, janitors, students, alumni, security guards, researchers, donors, and representatives from the Cambridge community. Engaging in broad-based, frank discussions of where our university is headed means embarking on an unfamiliar, uphill road for each of us, one that demands trust, overcoming old divisions and stereotypes, and realizing that, as partners, we can alter Harvard’s course. This, then, is the crossroads at which Harvard finds itself...
We’re certainly at a historical fork in the road, but we need not choose between vitality and security. In the eyes of this young writer, America will be dynamic so long as we hope for a better tomorrow. We will be vibrant so long as we provide pathways to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for as many as possible and not just for a few. We will be youthful so long as we keep the dream alive. And we will be all the more vital if we pass reform...
Just down the road from Kachoto's residence, in Zengeza, are piles of uncollected garbage. Sewage flows as children play in the muddy streets. There, another resident, Desire Kachepa, says town authorities are "letting them down" by not collecting refuse. Garbage has been uncollected for weeks. "Hence you are seeing us throwing it near the road," says Kachepa. "Water shortages have remained part of our lives here. With the rainy season now with us cholera is likely to come again because sewage is flowing into wells from which people get water for drinking when there is no tap water...
...last year there have been some improvements. "Unlike in the past, if we report a sewer pipe burst [the council will] come and attend to it immediately. But they must improve on refuse collection. I am not sure when they last collected it here." Tayengwa lives just across a road almost closed off by dumped refuse. "This is worrying, especially when we have heard of outbreaks of cholera in some parts of the country. I hope we will not have a repeat of last year...