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...University is right to stress the intellectual property rights of its professors and protect our academic community by prohibiting the sale of academic information to Web sites like Versity.com. When properly understood, these restrictions will help strengthen the bonds between students and professors and among fellow students. They will foster more cooperation and therefore more education within the Harvard academic community. These privileges, after all, are what we are paying to receive...
...member of neighborhood and parents' groups, Kenney has been a teacher and an education administrator. She wants to ensure all students have equal access to quality education, strengthen teacher quality, and stress full family involvement...
Nader has already started this path in helping to establish the Appleseed Foundation. The organization, started in 1993 by members of the 1958 HLS graduating class, describes its mission as "attacking the causes of injustice and patterns of abuse in order to strengthen justice and make democracy more productive...
...lawsuit alleges that the school knew about but failed to prevent a pattern of "insults, indignities, physical assault and humiliating treatment which went far beyond any need to toughen, strengthen or acclimate plaintiff to the rigors of military discipline." The academy maintains that the women were hazed no harder than average students, and points to the success of the two female graduates and the 15 percent dropout rate of the entering class in 1996. But Mentavlos?s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, contends that the treatment she received was gender-specific, such as having her shirt set on fire so cadets could...
...always a political act, always a political and ethical necessity. The craven rationalizations that keep the closeted entombed--the conviction that being out makes no difference--are as groundless as they are deadly. They cripple queer movements at their seminal moment (the avowal of queer identity) even as they strengthen heterosexual privilege by disappearing within...