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With the Ivy Championship looming on the horizon, the Caves Valley Spring Intercollegiate was an important match for the Crimson men’s golf team. After struggling against Ivy competition last week at the Princeton Invitational, this weekend had to be different if Harvard wanted to turn its season around.The squad did just that, as the Crimson dominated the field to win by 13 strokes, positing a combined score of 595 (294-301). George Washington came in second, tallying a team score of 608. Facing off against the majority of its Ivy competition, with the exception of Columbia...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Peaking In Time For Ivies | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...budget, and thus the four omnipresent cranes that tower over the new Allston science complex will remain idle for the indefinite future. They are behemoths hanging over residents and a constant reminder of the project there, which, for residents like Jake, has recently taken a particularly insulting turn. Not only did Harvard rush through the approval process to build the center, but the university also blasted a huge hole into the ground, displacing the rat population of the entire area...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...problems are complicated, but Jake’s requests to Harvard are simple—answer our questions, inform our people, and turn over the vacant buildings to the community so that they can be used. Would it hurt Harvard so much to prioritize these demands...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...While we find the lawyers and politicians who authorized the torture regime most culpable, America cannot simply turn a blind eye to those who actually carried out torture. The Obama administration must also conduct an internal investigation to determine the role of CIA interrogators in abusing detainees. The Nuremberg Trials established the principle “that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law,” and the Uniform Code of Military Justice requires American soldiers to disobey unlawful orders. While CIA agents...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Renouncing Torture | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...declassify the Department of Justice-CIA interrogation memos. The argument that the letters compromise national security does not hold water. As noted in the memos, the interrogations techniques are taken from the military's escape and evasion training manuals, known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) - which in turn were taken from Chinese abusive interrogations used on our troops during the Korean War. If there is any doubt the techniques were already in the public domain, released detainees have more than detailed the abuse interrogation techniques they were subjected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Needs to Reveal Even More on Torture | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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