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...book, “Patronizing the Arts,” came out earlier this year and takes this topic as its focus. The risk of suppressing the creativity of artists is increased, Garber said, when art is supported by non-neutral institutions, such as governments, which may seek to conform art to their own expectations or beliefs. Garber also noted the tension between the commercial and the exploratory sides of art, stating that while “older art is deeply valued, newer art is sometimes suspect.” Patrons are wary of supporting risky, edgy and unsanctioned...
Uncle Sam may be knocking at Mass. Hall soon. Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced it would seek financial records from 400 tax-exempt American colleges and universities in a continuing review of their fiscal practices. Clearly, the government remains skeptical about the lack of operational transparency in educational institutions. The 33-page questionnaire—which Harvard may or may not be selected to complete—seeks to uncover universities policies regarding everything from endowment spending to executive compensation. The decision by the IRS to gather this information is not objectionable, as they undoubtedly have...
...enough. That freshmen are educated about sexual health in a nonthreatening, non-stigmatizing way is essential. While sexual health issues may seem taboo to some students, it is students who are the most “shy” or uncomfortable about sex that are the least likely to seek information should they become sexually active. Students fear stigmatization if they talk about sex, but sex needs to be de-stigmatized in order to be safe. All college students—but particularly freshmen—need to know the facts about sexual health if they are to make well...
...country. "Koreans are very secretive about psychiatric problems," says Lee Myung Soo, a psychiatrist at the Seoul Metropolitan Mental Health Centre who agrees that one of the main reasons that people won't talk about it here is fear of losing one's job. More people will probably seek treatment because of Choi's death, explains Lee. But he also fears that there will be more suicides, as has happened after other celebrity deaths...
...upon the Iranian women’s movement. Ahmadinejad has insisted that women have it better in Iran than anywhere else in the world, but ever the reformer, he tried to make it even better in recent months by attempting to revoke the veto granted to women whose husbands seek to take another wife, allow men to divorce their wives without notification, and absolve divorced men from paying alimony, the alternative to which is a heavily-taxed severance that leaves the divorced wife with only a small fraction of the original sum. These clauses the government added to the Family...