Word: scoping
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...rules are meant to prevent large companies from advertising all over the Yard, Zong realized—to protect the Harvard campus from the kind of commercialization that has overtaken so much of America’s public space.Friedman and Vandenberg are now reconsidering the scope of what they can do with the JetBlue name, and any future promotions they try to pull off will have to be cleared with Kidd. However, it seems that other groups are not subject to the same scrutiny. A pair of students on the payroll of Cartoon Network, for instance, hold promotional events around...
...military recruiters from campus. Initially, the law had little effect, since colleges, law schools, and business schools received precious little in the way of military research grants and could sacrifice funding to protect their gay and lesbian students. Over the years, subsequent amendments and interpretations have expanded the scope of the Solomon Amendment, and now all federal funding can be revoked from an entire university if recruiters are banned from one of its individual schools. During the summer of 2005, Harvard was informed that over $400 million in federal funding would be revoked if Harvard Law School did not reverse...
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, examples of the expanded scope of military power in civilian life have been inauspicious. Americans have become too acclimated to the presence of heavily armed military personnel on their public transportation systems and in public spaces. Military recruiters and their bigoted policies are being forced back upon university campuses with threats of cutting all federal aid to these institutions—money which, by the way, universities use in epidemiological research...
...with some M.I.A. and Kanye West thrown in for good measure, and Adult Swim clips playing on John Harvard’s many TV’s, there is no lack of sensory stimulation. What is lacking is a clear sense of the event’s purpose or scope. People who came specifically for the party seem nonplussed. With no clear idea of where the center of the event is, they opt for either standing in tight groups or heading for the bar. I choose the latter and pin down one of the Adult Swim reps. After allowing myself...
Already months in the making, an on-campus pub catering to undergraduates is slated to open next fall. And as planning begins in earnest, broad ideas are emerging about the shape and scope of Harvard’s latest answer to improving social life for its undergraduates...