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PUBLISHED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 A new White House initiative holds promise for public schools By THE CRIMSON STAFF While Race to the Top constitutes only a small fraction of the $96.8 billion allocated to the Department of Education under the stimulus package, it will be money well spent.
PUBLISHED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 Harvard’s recent commitment to wind power furthers its green promise By THE CRIMSON STAFF Continuing a promising pattern of leading higher education in sustainability, Harvard signed a 15-year deal this week that will ensure that 10 percent of the energy needs for its Cambridge and Allston buildings will be provided by wind power.
PUBLISHED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 But should the president have one? By RAÚL A. CARRILLO Although Obama has certainly not been lenient with greedy bankers or seedy polluters, he has refused to completely vilify any particular group as the cause of our problems.
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Yes We Have?
By CLAY A. DUMAS
“Optimistic, but high unemployment, fewer social services, worse education, and some large-scale public works projects. That’s Ashtabula for ya.”
An Unnecessary Stipend
By BENJAMIN P. SCHWARTZ
To establish a genuine culture of peer-based mentorship and to save precious resources in the middle of a budget crunch, University Hall should do now what it should have done at the program’s inception: let PAFs advise for free.
FULLY CHARGED
Keep Watching the Watchers
By ADAM R. GOLD
If we encourage average citizens to start treating their neighbors and coworkers as suspects before a crime has even been committed, it undermines the natural trust that allows society to function.
Putting Google in Perspective
By ADAM R. GOLD
The point isn’t that Google is a failure, which obviously isn’t true, but rather that the search leader isn’t the heavenly gift some of us make it out to be.
Building a Better Internet
By ADAM R. GOLD
The United States may have invented the Internet (although the credit doesn’t go to Al Gore), but our great nation recently ranked 28th in Internet connectivity according to a recent study by the Communications Workers of America.
Don’t Go Hog Wild
By ADAM R. GOLD
For swine flu, we truly have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Stop Bashing the New Facebook
By ADAM R. GOLD
Since Facebook has no incentive to budge, we might as well try to get used to the changes.
Making a NASA Themselves
By ADAM R. GOLD
Rather than try to leapfrog so far past China that they’ll never catch us, we should instead co-opt them into our plans for planetary exploration and let them help cover costs.
Stem the Stem Cell Debate
By ADAM R. GOLD
While Obama’s speech about stem cells was a momentous one, concerned citizens on both sides of the ideological divide should be wary of attaching too much importance to Obama’s decision.
Not the Year of Our Lord
By ADAM R. GOLD
Creationists will point out that the Darwin
love-fest among scientists amounts to little more than devotion to a
religious leader, reinforcing the views of the nearly half of Americans
who don’t believe in evolution anyway.
STUBBORN THINGS
The Culture War
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
For proof that social conservatism—at least of a kind—is still relevant, look no further than your classmates.
Crimson in the Streets
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
Certainly, students are entitled to express their opinions on any issue.
The Boredomization of Politics
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
Much of political science today is dull.
Rockefeller Republicans
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
Harvard Republicans should show more confidence against their opponents and more solidarity with their allies.
Death of a Harvard Man
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
Now, University Hall seems determined to train the
next generation of professional women, yet it seems to have forgotten
its men, explaining to them the boundaries but never the game plan.
The Best and Brightest
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
The president should be leery of advisers who come from the same universities and work for the same administrations.
BROOM OF THE SYSTEM
An Infantile Disorder
By DYLAN R. MATTHEWS
The Senate Republican caucus has to choose. It can either grant Obama’s appointees timely votes or give up its role in the process entirely.
A Federation of the Whole World
By DYLAN R. MATTHEWS
Convincing the Permanent Five to relinquish their grasp on the United Nations Security Council will not be easy, but it is essential if the UN is to remain a body that the whole world can take seriously.
Common Equity
By DYLAN R. MATTHEWS
For the sake of our nation’s manufacturing workers—and, indeed, for the sake of our nation’s manufacturing companies—here’s hoping worker ownership finds a home in the current administration’s economic policies.
ISHMAEL'S MUSINGS
True Value
By A. PATRICK BEHRER
True pricing reform entails a shift in our worldview. It requires that we look beyond price tags and see the life-cycle costs of the goods we purchase.
Concentrating on Carbon
By A. PATRICK BEHRER
All of this begs the question: What is so special about 350 ppm and why should it be the target?
Greening the Bench?
By A. PATRICK BEHRER
This ruling could fundamentally alter the way in which government monitors waste discharged into rivers and lakes.
Don't Forget Waxman-Markey
By A. PATRICK BEHRER
The country will judge Obama’s first-term success based on the fate of health-care reform. Everyone knows it, and the national debate reflects this reality. However, the craze has pushed a second reality into the shadows: that the grand arc of history will evaluate Obama’s success as much based on his administration’s actions to combat climate change as on its health-care reforms.
THE POLITICS OF POLICY
The Private Cost of Public Poverty
Republicans may not want to acknowledge it, but states remain in desperate need of federal aid
By CLAY A. DUMAS
President Reagan was fond of saying that “government is the problem.” If nothing else good emerges from these next few months in states like California, at least the facile rhetoric of “government is the problem” and “starve the beast” will finally, a generation after Reagan, have lost its currency.
Of Cows and Carbon
By CLAY A. DUMAS
Hopefully, the threat of EPA regulation, and the political pressure for serious legislation that it engenders, will weigh seriously in the international balance leading up to Copenhagen.
Diamond in the Rush
By CLAY A. DUMAS
There’s an idea being circulated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, and even gracing the airwaves of “El Rushbo,” that could be the first truly bipartisan achievement of the Obama era: a payroll-tax holiday.
Son of Nuclear Option?
By CLAY A. DUMAS
How is it that, after winning more votes than any presidential candidate before him and having the largest Democratic congressional majorities in a generation, Barack Obama and his administration still lack sufficient votes just to bring urgently necessary—not to mention popular—legislation to a vote?
Hillary Goes to China
By CLAY A. DUMAS
As Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Asia demonstrates, the most worthwhile strategy for pursuing Sino-American cooperation is teamwork on climate change.
The Glass-Is-Half-Empty Strategy
By CLAY A. DUMAS
As the party out of power, the Republicans are relegated to arguing that, whatever our economic circumstances will be in the future, the glass is half-empty.
THE JURY'S IN
The Crosses We Bear
By SAM BARR
Bias against atheists sometimes causes tangible disadvantages, not just symbolic slights.
Scalia’s Bright Idea
By SAM BARR
Liberals should remember that we want campaign-finance laws in order to protect voters’ decision-making from influence by corporations, whose spending bears no relation to any pre-existing public support for their positions.
A New Kind of National Defense
By SAM BARR
If the government could not protect the Pentagon with roughly an hour’s notice, maybe we should not let it abrogate the rule of law in the name of rapid and effective national defense.
A PROPORTIONAL RESPONSE
Let There Be Light
By SILPA KOVVALI
What a shame to be deemed “educated,” having acquired eight semesters’ worth of facts and figures but not challenged or changed the principles based upon them.
True Love Revision
By SILPA KOVVALI
When it comes to a group that simultaneously cites arguments while questioning their relevance, and advocates for one lifestyle while refusing to address the perceived flaws of others, apathy is preferable to ignorant intolerance.
Reevaluating Rape
By SILPA KOVVALI
We must root out fundamental problems with a culture that explicitly and implicitly condones sexual assault.
Shirking Tradition
By SILPA KOVVALI
The real show of strength for India is not, as I once believed, to pretend that Western influence doesn’t exist, but to incorporate that influence, as Varma did, into a distinctly Indian story.
PETRI DISHES
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
What are the things that really scare us?
We Need to Talk
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
Increasingly, talking is something people do when other things are going on. Our generation doesn’t converse—we comment.
Fasting and Prayer
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
As I see some of my peers getting pumped for Purim, others giving up chicken for Lent, and others conscientiously forswearing any form of belief, I cannot help wishing that Harvard provided us the opportunity to engage with the complex fabric of religious belief both inside and outside the classroom.
Save Saturday!
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
Harvard should be giving its students more opportunities to think great thoughts without being interrupted by calls for grande lattes, not fewer.
No, We Can’t (Laugh)!
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
Obama isn’t funny. There, I said it.
THE F-WORD
Tucker Max
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
By valorizing the spectacle and the gendered stereotype, Max’s writings prove the continued relevance of both.
Plus-Sized Models
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
At once addicted to fast food and worshipful of heroin chic, American society has expunged the middle ground from its depictions of bodies.
Feminist Bad Faith
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Was my allegiance to the accoutrements of pink-packaged femininity a violation of my political commitment to feminism?
Cougars and Carnivores:
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Monday, April 27, 2009 11:09 PM
That a woman who sleeps with a younger man needs to be called anything other than a woman is disturbing, not empowering.
Veganism as Sexism?
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Rather than viewing the two causes as a trade-off,
vegan activists, in betraying the hegemonic process whereby animals are
removed from the idea of meat, should underscore the similar process
whereby females are packaged as objects for the male gaze.
‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’?
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Ultimately, feminists cannot opine on the precarious line between sexy and sexism without legislating the location of that line itself and, therein, relinquishing all claims to the universality of their conclusion.
“Beside Every Successful Man”
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
More damagingly, Basham confuses the distinction between correlation and causation: women’s stated desire to revert to the home may have stronger grounding in the cultural myth of the happy homemaker and in the pervasive prejudices against women in high-powered jobs, rather than in a genuine lust for the kitchen.
Relationship Status on Facebook:
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Facebook faithfully announces this romantic classification to hundreds of “friends,” many of whom are brief acquaintances or, at worst, complete strangers.
FULL FAITH AND CREDIT
The China Syndrome
By ANTHONY P. DEDOUSIS
In today’s global economy, China has become this neighborhood bully, defying established trade rules with impunity. This imposes a significant cost on the United States and presents a dangerous challenge to the free market.
Unbendable?
By ANTHONY P. DEDOUSIS
While far from perfect, the health-care plan outlined by President Obama deserves to become law. Nevertheless, it is disappointing that Congress has given short shrift to the solutions outlined here.
Shopping for Diversity
By BENJAMIN P. SCHWARTZ
Harvard’s party line on diversity and the academic realities I have experienced on the ground are drastically out of sync.
A “Czarry” Excuse for Fun
By BENJAMIN P. SCHWARTZ
Reevaluating a position that originally stimulated campus social life might combat the torpor the has recently characterized undergraduate involvement in campus-wide events.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
And Every Gain Divine...
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
The amount that some people are paid—especially those who are paid with the country’s common cents—seems to lack all common sense.
Tragedy of the Heavens
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
The only way up from the global fall from grace is to work together and consider what’s fair and important in the long run.
The Means of the End
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:03 PM
Now, as military conflict—but certainly not everyday social conflict or even paramilitary conflict—descends into stasis, it is worth meditating upon what the war has been worth.
More Than Secondhand Smoke
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:36 PM
Drug wars are not Mexico’s problem. They are everyone’s problem.
Hail to the Chiefs
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
A little more confidence in collaboration is a nice thing to have, and confidence, after all, is what recovery is made of.
The Return of Economic Nationalism?
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
The idea of the “unfettered market” is nothing but a wild myth.
One Laptop, Much Controversy
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
Every time a 13-year-old in rural Peru or Tuvalu touches a keyboard, she bypasses the Industrial Revolution and rockets into the Information Age.
PUBLISHED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 By SOHEYLA D. GHARIB and DAVID S. ROSENTHAL As if the global financial meltdown weren’t enough, this spring introduced scary words like “novel virus” and “pandemic,” bumping the financial crisis off the headlines.
PUBLISHED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 By FRED HIATT Officials at the University Health Services will advise all undergraduates to be vaccinated against swine flu in sharp contrast to Massachusetts policy and to a just-completed Harvard Medical School study that will recommend against mass immunization of young adults.
PUBLISHED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 By GIZELA M. GONZALEZ Despite the distraction of mid-terms
and the widespread publicity concerning
swine flu vaccine’s possible side
effects, almost 5000 people received
the vaccine early this week in the UHS
three-day immunization program.
PUBLISHED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 By ZACHARIAH P. HUGHES In the end, I guess it’s more about how you’re quarantined, rather than how you aren’t quarantined. If this doesn’t make total sense, then I guess you just haven’t yet suffered a fever that melts a huge piece of your cerebral cortex.
PUBLISHED ON Friday, November 06, 2009 By DERRICK ASIEDU This alphabet soup of pandemics is
part and parcel of a perennial American
diet consisting of hype and overreaction
to illnesses with miniscule mortality rates.
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