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...James M. Larkin ’10, who is a Crimson editorial editor, said, “The Advising Fortnight events put the fear of God in us when the conversation turned to acceptance rates. It was made to seem difficult to satisfy Social Studies’ stringent guidelines...
...taken center stage as Harvard bolsters its commitment to the sciences and encourages its researchers to bring discoveries out of the University’s labs and into the marketplace. In interviews, more than a dozen Harvard faculty members have said that the school’s unusually stringent conflict-of-interest rules have placed a hurdle on the path to innovation...
MIT’s technology licensing director, Lita L. Nelsen, says that her school’s policies for non-clinical trial work are “at least as stringent as Harvard’s.” But at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Yale, conflict-of-interest rules are in many ways more flexible for early-stage research...
Instead, Hernandez said, the paper carefully makes sure that individual reporters and editors are not covering organizations and events they’re involved in. Some departments have particularly stringent policies—the Arts section won’t allow anyone who has even tried out for a show in the past year to review theater. Such a policy is sensible and perhaps adequate when Crimson editors only have loose connections with other student groups...
...ensure that people don't end up wrongly convicted and sentenced for crimes they didn't commit - the original impetus for Ryan's moratorium. In addition to instituting more court oversight in the last few years, it has provided better training for lawyers in capital cases, more stringent guidelines for what qualifies for death, and put a closer watch on the police investigating and prosecutors trying these cases. Perhaps most importantly, it has set up a fund to even the field in cases that have long favored the deep pockets of the state doing battle with poorly trained, poorly paid...