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...said. And Dr. Eric Rubin, an associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the school of public health, said yesterday that the vaccine was a crucial tool in the fight against the spread of sexually transmitted infections. “I don’t know that Harvard students?? sexual behavior will be wildly influenced by the presence of a vaccine,” Rubin said. “But it will make whatever behavior they’re engaging in safer...
Capitalizing on the spirit of the national corporate-sponsored “EntrepreneurshipWeek USA,” the six-month-old Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum (HCEF) has organized three campus-wide discussions this week in support of students?? commercial creativity. The first discussion, “Student Entrepreneurs: Staging a Company in Between Classes,” held Monday, centered on the practicalities of becoming an entrepreneur at Harvard—namely what students can do to meet challenges they face while pursuing their enterprise ideas. The informal discussion was facilitated by Vice President and co-founder...
...getting an education,” says Harry R. Lewis ’68, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and former dean of Harvard College. Lewis’s department is excited that secondary fields will attract more students to Computer Sciences, but Lewis still expresses doubts about students?? motivations. “I worry that people are not really interested in the field but will do a secondary anyway because they think it’ll be worth something,” says Lewis. “They may feel pressure from their parents or peers...
...three of the Core’s 11 areas. A mere two departmental classes are listed as options for Foreign Cultures and Literature and Arts C, and only three can count for Moral Reasoning. Given that there are nearly 1,000 pages of course listings, the restrictions unduly limit students?? ability to take the classes they are interested in and force students to take large and poorly-taught courses.Every semester, students are frustrated when their petitions to count additional classes are rejected, often based on the rule that no class without a midterm and a final will...
...shoulders. Harvard has taken substantial strides to make life easier for its transgender students. Amending its non-discrimination policy to protect gender identity last year was a milestone, and the Committee on House Life’s recent decision to make gender-neutral housing easier to obtain for transgender students??by including a transgender option in addition to the male and female categories on housing forms—is another step in the right direction. Many of these students will be far more comfortable in gender-neutral housing than in gender-segregated rooms. But such a policy fails...