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...stock portfolios, with players as the assets. If Bloomberg could analyze a stock via every imaginable statistic and performance graphic, why couldn't the company do the same for athletes? With fantasy sports now a $4.5 billion industry, wouldn't there be demand for a Bloomberg product geared toward that market...
Last week, students across campus opened their email inboxes to find a message from University President Drew G. Faust, which detailed Harvard’s recent advances toward greater faculty and non-faculty diversity, along with plans for future improvement. Her final announcement—that Harvard had hired Lisa M. Coleman as its first Chief Diversity Officer—merits our praise. Without the oversight the position provides, the need to ensure diversity may have fallen by the wayside. For the position to reach its full potential, University Hall should endow it with great responsibility...
...position to be all-encompassing, so that she can coordinate and organize more effectively. The absence of one overarching leader could otherwise create a lack of accountability, leading to complacency. The ability to coordinate efforts and take advantage of Harvard’s resources will allow Coleman to work toward greater diversity in myriad ways...
...move forward entails looking to its junior faculty. According to Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Judith D. Singer, 46 percent of junior faculty members in the social sciences are women. Harvard has been known to regularly tenure professors outside its junior faculty, but instead should work toward the diversity it seeks by promoting from within, bringing diverse individuals up through its ranks...
...burqa confiscates a woman’s existence. By and large, those who wear it are victims," said Fadela Amara, France’s Secretary of Urban Policy, and a Muslim woman herself. This is the going attitude toward the Islamic veil in France these days. Since 2004, French girls have been banned from wearing headscarves in state schools, and in January of this year, a French parliamentary commission recommended a partial ban on women wearing Islamic face veils in government offices, schools, on public transportation, and in hospitals. Such a ban would be discriminatory toward Muslim culture...