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...inappropriate comments to what constituted, according to Government Professor Robert D. Putnam, “a crime.”A DEMAND FOR DISSOCIATIONSeniors in the class of 1984 returned to Harvard in the fall to another shock. Popular Government Professor Jorge I. Dominguez had been implicated in the second sexual harassment scandal in two years—this time, the case involved a junior faculty member and a female graduate student.Unlike the two incidents that came before it, students and Dominguez’ colleagues remember this case presenting a unique challenge to University officials desperately trying to assuage...
...while the hesitancy with criticism affects us negatively academically, it has far more profound an impact outside of the classroom. In particular, harsh, honest criticism is so rarified that students do not learn first how to accept and learn from criticism, and second they do not learn how to support and modify their positions. When criticism is encountered in outside contexts, it is either rejected or shied away from. Further, there is a sort of “perfection complex” that develops as a result...
...pollution will have similar adverse health effects in Africa as they do in other places. Why then do we need cohort studies in Africa? We suggest at least five reasons. First, there may be unpredictable interactions between the simultaneous infectious and non-communicable disease epidemics unique to Africa. Second, it is important to determine population specific disease burdens in a region with few birth and death records and other health statistics. Third, humans evolved in East Africa, making African genetic diversity greater than elsewhere in the world. Studying the interaction between environmental factors and genes elucidates disease mechanisms. Fourth...
...Cooperation Agreement signed with the City of Boston last April. Earlier this spring, the University delivered a $383,865 check to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the first of two payments to the City aimed at promoting neighborhood job training. According to University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall, a second funding installment of the same amount is due in January. “We remain firmly committed to supporting job training development in Boston,” said Christopher M. Gordon, chief operating officer for Harvard’s Allston Development Group, in a University press release. “This investment...
Naïve scholar and teacher that I was when I entered Harvard a second time, I quickly received lessons in leadership that I hope will not be necessary to remember at Duke: When you take over a unit, fire or transfer anybody with power who does not owe it to you. Next, choose somebody with a high profile but tenuous backing to beat up on publicly. It cows everybody else into submission...