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...maintain support for library programs that are more heavily used by students, the Harvard College Library will discontinue library services in the Quad Library at the end of spring term. However, HCL librarians will continue to offer research support in the Hilles building for students, conducting sessions on topics such as how to use RefWorks, finding multimedia resources in the libraries, and creating research strategies for a paper. The College will engage students over the coming months in discussions on how best to use the nearly 10,000 square feet made available by this move to meet student activities...
Teaching fellow and teaching assistant allocations will be under close scrutiny, guided by our commitments to undergraduate education and to financial support for graduate students. All TF and TA appointments will be reviewed by the Office of Undergraduate Education to ensure compliance with new and existing guidelines on section sizes and appropriate levels of compensation. In some cases, existing practices that deviate from the standard guidelines must be modified...
...multisectarian and tolerant history of Arab and Islamic culture. That culture of tolerance is today under threat from the rise of religious extremism. But clash-of-civilizations pundits and Western leaders like the Pope often ignore how the West helped spark such intolerance, especially through its one-sided support of Israel. (Check out a story on the Pope's relationship with the Jews...
Israel is a major stop on Pope Benedict's journey and a focal point of Western involvement in the Middle East. And while support for the modern revival of the ancient biblical nation runs deep among many Christians in America and Europe, the creation of Israel has been a disaster for Christians in the Middle East. Many of the Palestinian refugees who fled or were forced from their homes in 1948 - never to be allowed back - were Christians. The flood of Palestinian refugees into Lebanon helped spark a civil war between Muslims and Christians there. And the ongoing occupation...
...another reason to be concerned about the trip is that one of its main purposes - to lend moral support to the diminishing number of Christians in the region - just isn't going to work. (See the five things the Pope must do on his Mideast trip...