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...seniors graduate this week and reflect upon their academic life at Harvard, they may ask themselves the question: How well has Harvard taught me to understand others in my world?Those in math, engineering, and the sciences have learned a common language with which to communicate with fellow practitioners across the globe. Those in the social sciences cannot boast such concrete understanding, but Harvard’s Social Studies program has gone a long way toward promoting international concerns. Those in the humanities, however, may despair—although they may know everything there is to know about postwar Georgia...
Happily, the year also showed Harvard at its best. In February, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted an open-access policy on its research publications. In addition to publishing through access-limited journals, faculty will make their articles freely available in a Harvard repository, to be read, built-upon, linked-to, and cited, even as journals publish them. The Law School followed suit in May. Here the university acted to free information rather than to control it. Harvard defied the predatory monopoly of journal publishers. Bravo, fair Harvard. “To thy children the lesson still give,/ With...
...month after the UC stopped reimbursing alcohol purchases, administrators presented a working draft of the College’s alcohol policy that, upon taking effect at the beginning of February, would standardize the rules for both private and House-wide parties...
...This external pressure, both from politicians and the alumni who will be called upon to finance the next capital campaign, seems to have found its mark within the University’s leadership, prompting an institution whose financial practices have been largely static to make the first overtures at increasing spending in some time...
...Harvard Democrats, said the senator refused to answer questions about cosponsoring a bill that would end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” At the Portland recruiting station today, Reitan attempted to enlist as an openly gay male, upon which a military official cited the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to stop the procedure. The 20 members remained in the station to protest the policy, and after approximately 30 minutes, the police came to formally ask the group to leave...