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...effort. Students fasting today who have not yet registered can still do so by e-mailing farber@fas.harvard.edu. Nearly 40 Hillels across the nation are currently involved with MAZON through fund-raising or raising awareness, according to MAZON’s communications and development associate, Heather G. Wolfson. “College students are our future advocates and our current advocates. It’s imperative that they speak out for the 30 million Americans who are hungry on a daily basis,” Wolfson said. Students participating in the program said they thought the HUDS arrangement reflected the symbolism...
...Committee that created secondary fields and moved back concentration choice, advocated a service-based model of education.Students, he said, need “the capacity to engage in moral reasoning and to have sufficient empathy to use that ability and to participate in public affairs.”And Wolfson Professor of Jewish History Jay M. Harris called distribution requirements “an abdication of faculty responsibility,” saying that professors should consider implementing several models of general education simultaneously.In yesterday’s speech, Summers said that “improving the experience of students...
After a few thousand years, the jury is still out. As Jews are midway through observing the holiday of Passover, famed defense attorney and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz faced off against Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris in a mock trial of Pharaoh last night. The two men debated Pharaoh’s guilt on charges of persecuting and enslaving the Jews and attempted genocide but neither side won. Harris, who teaches Moral Reasoning 54, “‘If There Is No God, Then All Is Permitted,’: Theism...
...EVAN WOLFSON The same-sex-marriage advocate is executive director of Freedom to Marry Senator Russ Feingold should be on the list for putting forward values and policies before the American people and offering Democrats a chance to return to the clarity and authenticity needed to regain power. From his opposition to the war in Iraq to his support for ending the exclusion of committed same-sex couples from marriage, he is emerging as the one to watch as the political pendulum swings...
...legislation yesterday, Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian sat next to a little bell that he rang whenever a professor spoke for more than three minutes. But even the new bell did not prevent some of the debate at the meeting from veering toward the chaotic. After Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris introduced an amendment that would, among other things, delete seven words from the secondary fields legislation, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard pushed for an “amendment to the amendment” that would delete an additional four words. The question boiled...