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...entertained or otherwise diverted.Yet this is not enough, not when new sources of “content,” as the information industry likes to call creative endeavors and conversations, are flooding into our homes and offices. How can we find useful news from unfamiliar sources, for example? What??whom—can we trust? Luckily, the Daily Me is evolving into what we might think of as a “Daily We” where recommendations from the wider community supplement our own selections in a collaborative filtering process.Websites such as Kuro5hin, Digg, Newsvine...
...teach the narrow and sometimes ideologically charged topics central to their own research but peripheral from the point of view of students looking for a broad and general perspective. Ulrich’s piece prompted me to go to the department’s online website to see what??s offered at Harvard in an area of American history perhaps even more central, the Civil War. I was stunned to learn that the only course offered (aside from a limited enrollment seminar that seems to be scheduled only sporadically) is not a course on the Civil...
...unsure whether it was appropriate for the advisory to label the assailant as Hispanic. “Having that description does not necessarily mean a certain phenotype or physical characteristic,” said Felipe A. Tewes ’06, former president of Fuerza Latina. “What??s sad is that they’re probably going to be looking for a certain type of image of what a Latino criminal would look like. I don’t believe that would be helpful.”According to Conley, the issue of protecting oneself...
...aware they exist. Instead, we are left with a set of flaccid administrative reforms rather than innovative ideas that indicate, as Professor Julie Buckler writes, “the next step in the evolution of our own thinking, and not as a break from past practices.” What??s worse, most students don’t know these ideas even exist, or understand how students relate to them...
...What??s upsetting about this week’s swirl of controversy is that concrete proposals for improving the quality of life of Harvard’s freshmen are being pushed out of the discussion. Instead of swallowing its collective pride and beginning the work of shaping its successor, the Prefect Program’s board seems intent on throwing a tantrum about what it feels was an inadequate amount of consultation. That’s a real shame, since huge improvements to freshman advising aren’t just attainable, they would be remarkably simple...