Editorials
Crime and Punishment
New policies allow for more leeway in judging cases and provide for penalties that vary in seriousness with the crimes they are made to address.
Harvard Executive Salary: A Fair Reflection
We shouldn’t be eager to denounce the salaries earned by those who manage our endowment fund. If anything, we should be thankful for the opportunities HMC creates.
Closing the Gap
When candidates are anonymous, voters are likely to adhere to outdated voting paradigms and opt for male candidates.
The Endowment and Africa
HMC should take this moment to reaffirm a commitment to corporate social responsibility in the developing world.
The Cost of Exclusivity
That Harvard students routinely flock to off-campus social spaces belies the fact that Harvard, in truth, owns an abundance of underutilized social space.
How to Protest
This well-publicized case gets to the heart of how a potentially legitimate protest can go too far and infringe on the rights of other people.
Cultural Loot
For too long, museums in Western Europe and the United States have jealously clung to objects to which they have no underlying valid claim. As a rule, they should begin returning them to the many nations of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asian and others who now have the ample resources to take care of them.
An Unjust Execution
We regret that our legal system has created such confusion and, in a larger sense, lost the trust and faith of the American people in its handling of this particular case.
Orwell Lives
The strategic management of student dissent by the College was in fact an act of suppression of such dissent, as the Speak Out was deliberately scheduled far away from and long after the ribbon-cutting ceremony, discouraging students from voicing their opinions at the real event itself.
The Best Way to Be Green
Harvard students and community members are more than capable of promoting green initiatives.
Big Ideas
How students are learning is also unique in this seminar. Rather than focusing on a single overarching topic, the course’s main function is to introduce students to a wide variety of subjects from across academic disciplines within the context of a single course.
The Coop—a “Cooperative?”
Currently, some books, like Professor N. Gregory Mankiw’s “Principles of Economics” are offered for almost $100 less on Amazon.com than they are at the Coop. Certainly, the Coop has to pay expensive overhead costs that online retailers simply don’t have to consider, and we understand that the circumstances are different.
The CS50 Model
CS50 is not a fluke. The methods that turned the course into an academic juggernaut with top Q ratings and astronomical enrollment figures—in spite of ostensibly abstruse subject matter and an infamously taxing workload—can be applied across the Harvard curriculum.
Call That a Vigil?
The Harvard community seemed to use the anniversary primarily as a means of decrying post-9/11 discrimination in America and the subsequent foreign policy of the Bush administration.
Taming the Tours
The additional signs in the Science Center seem a sensible and subtle way to reinforce this notion, and to discourage disruptive behavior.
A New Era
In the spring of 1976, a young woman graduated from Harvard College with a degree in History and Literature. While ...
Keep Moving
President Obama, if you can assist American citizens to create meaningful, lasting jobs, you must.
A Blank Slate
At this point in time, it remains unseen whether or not the new Bob Slate will succeed in the medium or long term, but we certainly hope it does.
A Moral Education
In order to ensure that our college and university is a “place where all can thrive,” the student body needs an explicit affirmation of the moral value set that should guide the Harvard community, if it is to be a happy and fulfilling place to spend one’s formative years.
Hauser: Not Enough
Harvard's lack of decisive action throughout this situation permitted Hauser to evade full responsibility and delayed the public acknowledgement of his research's inaccuracy.
What Irene Hath Wrought
Last week, Hurricane Irene ravaged the Caribbean, North Carolina, and Vermont. It also, we hear, caused quite a ruckus in nearby Boston.