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...away. It's summer's dead center point and even the obsessive presidential candidates seem to be bowing to the season with unusually sane schedules. They're still flying around the country at a steady pace, from swing state to fund raiser to photo op, still taking the occasional swipe. But neither is breaking a sweat...
...hours at a time. Better be punctual: your second tardy return gets you booted from the system. The program keeps track of the bikes via tiny rfid chips, the same tamper-proof radio-frequency devices used to monitor everything from clothing inventories to office ID badges. Riders use a swipe card to unlock the bikes, and if they fail to return them--or if the bikes are stolen on their watch--they'll be out $200. SmartBikes will soon be outfitted with independent wire locks so that cyclists can make pit stops wherever they want. No need to worry, though...
...Smith intends to requisition some of the College’s choice office space for FAS administrators. Offices that once housed bureaucrats preoccupied with undergraduate matters will instead be the home of the Faculty’s apparatchiks. Peer Advising Fellows will have to swipe their ID cards and traipse through the Holyoke Centre’s profane architectural morass before they can file the receipts for their study breaks, but the staff of the Divisional Dean of the Social Sciences may well soon have a priceless view of Harvard Yard...
...Harvard once again begins the unceremonious deactivation of its students’ swipe cards—some for just the summer, and some forever—consider just what that swipe access represents for students here and at schools across the country. Access to higher education provides access to opportunity in its strictest sense and can be both a source of individual pride and a path of achievement for young adults. Yet, we cannot be content with the status quo in the United States. Access to quality education must continue to be expanded for students of socioeconomically and geographically diverse...
While the remarks are among the more vitriolic uttered by professors around Harvard, they are reflective of harsh words that the two have been exchanging for decades. (While Chomsky largely avoided Dershowitz in his speech last night, he did take a swipe at Dershowitz’s book, “The Case for Israel...