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Furthermore, for those members of the University community who may think Solomon is a parochial issue only involving gays and lesbians, think again. While the Solomon Amendment addresses Congressional displeasure over the barring of military recruiters, Congress may next decide to threaten withholding federal funding if universities distribute condoms, or offer abortion counseling or teach evolution. Challenging the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment is essential then to maintaining basic academic freedom at Harvard. President Summers fails as our leader unless he defends the very core principle on which the free exchange of ideas is based...
Annual losses of about $25,000 threaten to close the convenient store housed in Cabot basement, but students were told last week that if they can make Celeris break even next semester they will have saved their store...
...hours, it seems logical to err on the side of being overstaffed rather than understaffed, the current state of affairs. Also, though we certainly enjoy security officers who are known to be friendly personalities in the Houses, we need guards to be imposing when necessary to those who may threaten our community...
...proposed design hugs the museum’s existing Neo-Classical building, located in the center of a long city block. The ends of Maltzan’s design—a small theater on one end and a gallery at the other—are visually untethered and threaten to take flight like a bird. While the form is striking, the actual spaces seem less than ideal. Reminiscent of Dutch architect-celebrity Rem Koolhaas’ Second Stage Theatre in Manhattan, the stage’s proscenium is replaced by a giant window that overlooks the street below...
...very compelling here. Consider that in December 2002, Columbia University rescinded Michael Bellesiles’s Bancroft Prize after it was discovered that his award-winning book, Arming America, relied on fabricated sources. Were the Pulitzer Board to revoke Duranty’s prize, it would not threaten past Pulitzer winners any more than the rescinding of Bellesiles’s award threatened previous Bancroft winners...