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...schedules, podcasts and class lecture videos are now available for a growing number of classes. From Bits to Ec10, students can go beyond classmate notes and get a real taste of the real thing. Nevertheless, after the classes are done, the videos are usually deleted to save server storage and reduce costs. At best, the decision is left to the professor of the course. Moreover, filmed classes, due to fear of students not attending and the cost of filming, are still the exception rather than the rule...
This haphazard and erratic media storage should change; we should create a server with Harvard Professors’ lectures saved for posterity, a 21st century Widener. Rather than deleting them and restricting access, FAS should keep media information (primarily videos of classes) permanently, thus providing future generations with live images of our current faculty...
...federal government in its growing deficit, preserving the available videos today and promoting more filming in the future would show a commitment to the long-term benefits of education and to our breathtaking faculty. Moreover, this will only become more possible with time. When FAS acquired its first terabyte server in 1997, it cost over a million dollars. Today, prototype laptops have that capacity. Although recording and storage will undoubtably become cheaper over time, there is no time to lose. Had we started before, philosophy students could open video players with Robert Nozick and John Rawls and gauge their ideas...
...University of Chicago. I find it insufficient that the most prominent educational institution in the world added a more prominent disclaimer stating that the classic racist views expressed in that work belong only to the authors. I call on Harvard—take that paper off your server and issue an apology to all persons of learning and conscience. TZVEE ZAHAVY Teaneck, N.J. April...
...number of CampusTap bloggers continues to grow by the day, with nearly 100 active writers and 300 regular users now registered, according to Katz and Ritter.Golis sees great potential in this Harvard blog community, and he says that moving Cambridge Common off of the public blogspot.com server and onto CampusTap will give his site exposure and connect his writers to other bloggers. “CampusTap creates a network that makes people more inclined to [blog],” he says. “The space is more useful. There will be a distinct public sphere at Harvard...