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OPINION
COMMENCEMENT 2006
What’s Right with Harvard
By WILLIAM C. KIRBY
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:04 PM
This is anything but a complacent place. Institutionaly loyalty, without false sentimentality, is real here, and our members, even under the greatest duress, put the welfare of Harvard above their own.
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Summers’ Legacy
Whether Summers’ ideas outlast his tenure will be the ultimate barometer of his success
By THE CRIMSON STAFF
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:15 PM
Summers banked his presidency on the assumption that his vision for Harvard was the right one. He aimed to implement that vision with an urgency befitting what would ultimately be the shortest tenure of any Harvard president since the Civil War.
Charting a Progressive Course Bok, Knowles, and the presidential search committee should resist complacencyBy THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:22 PM What the next president cannot—and must not—be is a merely charismatic and charming fundraiser who leaves each tub on its own bottom and lets each faculty do as it pleases. Harvard deserves more from its leader. Faculty, Where Art Thou? The Faculty’s major decisions this year were not consistent with students’ best interestsBy THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:08 AM The Faculty has addressed few of the critical problems facing undergraduate education in any meaningful way, including those of curricular reform and the need for better teaching.  Bring on the Fun / The College has made significant progress in improving the Harvard social experience
Compromising Our Future / Sudden cuts in federal education spending demonstrate government priorities gone awry
Let’s Get on With It / The College and Faculty must push forward with implementing the curricular review
Big Battles, Small Successes / Despite this year's significant missteps, the UC managaed to effect positive reforms
The Year in Brief / An assorted look at The Crimson Staff's takes on the year's events
Parting shots
CHRISTINE M. DELUCIA
My Disconnected Life
Leave No Undergraduate Behind
Ten Things I Hate About You, Harvard
Learning to Think at Harvard
Letter To Myself: To Be Opened In 2010
Stumbling Through the Yard
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The Lamont Education
By ELIZABETH W. GREEN
Tuesday, June 06, 2006 3:35 AM
What we should really be commemorating this week is the parts of this institution that the Facebook cannot preserve—the parts that, much worse, even Harvard itself might not keep.
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From Typewriters to T1
By SCOTT A. ROSENBERG
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:07 AM
In the last 25 years, the news has become remarkably more accessible and more open to being influenced by everyday people
A Self-Reliant Education
By HANNAH E. S. WRIGHT
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:42 AM
If the college years truly predict behavior later in life, then our current habit of abdicating our responsibility to discuss and engage in issues that are bigger than ourselves sets the stage for a future of disassociation from democratic society.
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Gateways to General Education
By MARIA TATAR
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:17 PM
It is clear that there is lively consensus about the need for courses with interdisciplinary breadth and disciplinary depth, and humanities faculty are eager to teach them.
Moving Forward
By JUDITH L. RYAN
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:19 PM
It may be, however, that the time is not yet ripe for the radically new paradigm I think we ultimately need.
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Making the News
By ALEX SLACK
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:31 PM
Journalists fail more surely when they pass up a potential story, not when they cover too much.
Chance and Handsome Dan
By TIMOTHY J. MCGINN
Monday, June 05, 2006 3:05 AM
Looking back upon my time at Harvard in recent weeks, I’ve come to see the heist as far more than an opportunity for self-congratulation—though it undoubtedly is that, too—and as a lens through which to examine the whole of my college experience.
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Company in Cambridge: A Pamplonan’s Coffee-Flavored Life
On JOSEFINA YANGUAS, By SAHIL K. MAHTANI and BRIAN J. ROSENBERG
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:32 AM
Outside, Josefina would sometimes find out her patrons’ true identities from the dust-jackets of books. The quiet and relaxed, yet welcoming, atmosphere of Pamplona attracted writers of all ilks.
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Lessons for the Future
By HARRY R. LEWIS
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:00 PM
A university is little more than its people. Everything depends on their quality and on the process of making them better. Getting the best students and faculty and administrators takes hard work; retaining them and cultivating their growth are as important as bringing them in.
Tuesdays with Larry
By ADAM M. GUREN
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:08 PM
I fear that some of the most important sides of Lawrence Summers' multifaceted presidency will be lost in an effort to dramatize an unquestionably tumultuous five years, particularly the prejudice of history may overlook his tremendous commitment to undergraduates, an aria of Summers’ tragic opera for which I was lucky enough to hold a front-row seat.
The Year at the College
By BENEDICT H. GROSS
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:14 AM
This has been a year of change for the academic and social lives of undergraduates.
Why I Stood Up: The Case Against Summers
By J. LORAND MATORY
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:16 PM
As the sponsor of the resolution that led to the 218-185 “no-confidence” vote in March 2005, I offer one perspective from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which functions, or suffers, under the president’s authority far more than the schools of law, business, and medicine. Yet I was also goaded by complaints from the schools of education and public health, University Health Services staff, and minority students generally. Summers’ selective respect for disciplines, persons, and the truth itself inspired mistrust far and wide.
Engineering Human Souls
By SAHIL K. MAHTANI
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:24 PM
Engineering is the ugly, productive child that avoids her peers. (This may hint at the rationale for the current cosmetic change.)
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Who’s a Liberal Now?
By I. DAVID BENKIN
Monday, June 05, 2006 12:33 AM
One of the ironies of the present parlous situation is that those who have closed their minds to politically incorrect thought tend to label themselves as “Liberals.” |
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