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...quick perusal of "In the News" section on thefacebook.com confirms that, if not everyone, then many at Harvard get Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame. But while these items usually link to games won, stunts pulled or pedestrian quotes as random student X, a different subset of newsmakers gain their notoriety through, well, more notorious means...
...awful things their predecessors had blamed on such pernicious moves as racial integration and the introduction of the New Deal. Allow gays and lesbians to marry, they argued with remarkable creativity of hatred, and soon enough people would be marrying children or their pets. (Clearly enfranchising an arbitrarily deprived subset of adult citizens is but a step away from enfranchising their infants or their dogs.) Or perhaps the problem was that gay marriage would, by its very existence, harm already existing heterosexual unions—so fragile an institution, apparently, is straight marriage that the presence of any other sort...
Some people claim that this issue only affects a small subset of people at Harvard. However, bathroom accessibility is a major issue for those of us whom it does affect here. Opponents of gender-non-specific single-stall bathrooms have argued that desegregating these bathrooms by gender would decrease cleanliness. This is not a reason to keep single-stall bathrooms as gender marked: everyone should strive to make Harvard’s bathrooms a little cleaner, regardless of gender. Opponents also argue that a change in accessibility would increase the risk of women being harassed by men in the bathroom...
Dobin says that curricular reform may also attract a subset of faculty members, including younger professors...
...roundtable discussion on how Harvard University, through its existing mission of promoting world-class research and sustained teaching excellence, can help alleviate the current public health crisis in Africa. Lack of existing primary health care infrastructure, continued political instability and cultural-religious stigmas against Western interventions are just a subset of the problems that have historically impeded many well intended international relief efforts focused on alleviating poverty and combating disease. Additionally, the author of “The Matrix” cogently outlines many U.S. foreign policy challenges that continue to serve as obstacles to create sustained public health efforts...