SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE: 

CRISIS AT HARVARD:  From College Fix:   Harvard University students need more sleep, and the school should promote and facilitate their rest with special furniture designed for naps, a Harvard Crimson editorial editor, stated in a recent op-ed.  “Our collective lack of sleep shows readily across campus,” human evolutionary biology major Alessandro Hammond wrote for the student newspaper. “People nap in chairs, or even on the library floor, to catch much-needed shuteye before they return to the grind.”  Lack of sleep is associated with many unfortunate known effects, Hammond said, including increased student athlete injury, decreased attention, impaired cognitive development, and increased risk-taking.  Harvard has responded to the need with a required sleep habits survey and a general education class on sleep, Gen Ed 1038, but that’s not enough, Hammond wrote.  Harvard must supply its students with specialized furniture enabling “people to sleep comfortably in any place” for short periods of time, he wrote.  We believe this calls for a national fundraising campaign, maybe even a telethon.  Our hearts go out to the children of Harvard, whose suffering must be great, compared to, say, the children of Ukraine.