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While it is a fundamentally good thing that the Harvard community has been notified via e-mail of the disease’s potential to spread and of its presence on campus, perhaps the best thing about Harvard’s reaction is its commitment to informing the community instead of inspiring panic. We certainly echo the recommendations of University Health Services officials who have suggested taking small precautions such as frequent hand-washing, but we hope that students do not allow a fear of contracting this new flu strain to inhibit their daily routines and activities. In cases like...
...instance, a recent letter sent via email to the entire university from the provost and the director of University Health Services said there were two cases of the flu reported in Lowell, unnecessarily causing many students to worry that there was an outbreak in the undergraduate house, rather than the implied cases in Lowell, Mass. Similarly, the vice president mentioned at a news conference last week that he would advise his family to avoid going “anywhere in confined places now” like airplanes. His comments aren’t only unfairly damaging to the airline industry...
...Automotive Engineers annual meeting in Detroit. Chrysler is promising to deliver an all-electric, battery-driven vehicle, such as Dodge Circuit, by the end of 2010. The Dodge Circuit has a range of between 150 and 200 miles before the batteries must be recharged. The car can be recharged via a standard 110 volt or 220 volt outlet found in most single family homes...
...Malan ’99, a lecturer widely known on campus for teaching Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science I,” says he thinks outsourcing e-mail is not a concern. But he adds that students may not know that e-mail sent via the Harvard domain leaves Cambridge.“Outsourcing of e-mail has at least one important implication that students might have to be cognizant of, and that is if they have the expectation that e-mail sent from their college.harvard.edu address to other users within harvard.edu will remain private...
...spread of the virus, the World Health Organization declared a Phase 5 outbreak, the second-highest on its threat scale. At Harvard, Provost Steven E. Hyman and the Director of Harvard University Health Services David S. Rosenthal ’59 sent out a community advisory yesterday, informing students via e-mail that there were two confirmed cases of swine flu in Lowell, Mass. In the e-mail they urged anyone experiencing flu-like symptoms to seek immediate medical attention and listed resources for Harvard students to learn more about the disease and its spread...