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Embracing ethnic studies would allow students to engage in valid and valuable intellectual pursuits. The current system constricts undergraduates, compromising their academic interests by forcing them to concentrate in other fields. Supporting the several undergraduate groups that have rightly been pushing for ethnic studies, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations released a report in late April that called for, among other initiatives, the creation of a Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. The report advocated the establishment of tenured faculty positions in Native American, Latino, Asian American and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies. This proposal...
...think all the major universities and colleges in the country that have been employing affirmative action have been watching the law school case…and I hope this sends a strong signal to the universities that their policies are still valid and need to be continued,” said Angelo Ancheta, the project’s director of legal and advocacy programs and lead counsel on the brief...
Though the cookbook collection numbered roughly 1,500 by the 1960s, it has grown in recent years to become one of the largest in the world, with Haber’s push for culinary history to be recognized as a valid research pursuit...
...mainly with immediate concerns and not the long-term consequences of our actions. The environment is a prime example of a national policy issue that the Bush administration has sorely neglected, partly because it requires too much forward thinking. Gore and other environmental advocates should be commended for raising valid objections to the present course of our nation’s environmental policy. Only by exposing the current administration’s failures through focused debate can we make progress in protecting the environment...
Many residents have complained that the presence of a Harvard museum would increase traffic in the neighborhood and make it even more difficult to find a place to park. These concerns are valid, and the University should include public parking under the museum to alleviate the parking crunch that already exists. The current proposal for the museum calls for approximately 80 parking spaces. Many more will be needed to satisfy the residents’ needs, not to mention those of the museum’s visitors and staff. The University should also do its best to make the museum welcoming...