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Fletcher University Professor Henry L. Gates, Jr., the director of the institute, said Murray is “vital and central to our intellectual and artistic tradition...
...nationally acclaimed publication that plays a vital role on our campus. It is not, in any sense, an “endangered Harvard species.” The Crimson owes a retraction and an apology to Diversity & Distinction for its gross misrepresentation of a successful student publication and its financial status. We hope that in the future, your writers will take greater care to distinguish the past from the present, and to refrain from inaccurate and damaging statements about student organizations on the Harvard campus. While the article is yours to write, the truth is not yours to rewrite...
...best manner of preventing regional jihadist cooperation and structures from forming is by keeping groups scrambling to avoid detection at home," the French counter-terror official says. Preventing that happening in north Africa is vital for Europe, and France in particular, Jacquard notes. "If they can coordinate and become efficient through cooperation there, there's no doubt they'll export that for terror purposes here," Jacquard warns. "That's inevitable - and it's why European security services view north Africa as Europe's front line in fighting terrorism...
Finally, make better training and more creative deployment of graduate teaching fellows a central part of curricular reform. Graduate student teachers are as vital to great research universities as medical interns are to flagship hospitals. At Harvard, we fund graduate education in part through teaching fellowships and offer excellent teacher training to our PhDs. But teaching fellowships have been tied, in a cookie-cutter fashion, to lecture-course sections enrolling 15 to 18 undergraduates apiece. Faculty are often loath to try new course formats for fear of not employing enough TFs; and graduate students do not develop a full range...
Because of my particular attachment to Harvard, it was encouraging to see the Crimson take an interest in the theft of music in recent editorials. It is no doubt part of a much-needed conversation about a vital issue to the music community, fans, higher education and anyone interested in working in an intellectual property-based industry (which probably includes most Harvard graduates...