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...Crimson's primary task is to gather news--not police student activists. If campus newspapers find out about a protest beforehand, they send reporters and then assess how significant it was. The editors then pass judgement on where to play the article or if they should publish it at all. Covering the news is a paper's responsibility. By ignoring any tip-offs, a paper would be abdicating its duty...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: Shinagel Strikes Out | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...addition, TAS is sponsoring a referendum of all Yale graduate students to assess support for both the grade strike and a proposed union...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: To Teach or to Strike: | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

CITYSTEP'S Where Go Our Feet is a lot like your little sister's dance recital. No matter what happens onstage, you've got to be proud of the performers. And like your sister's recital, you're hard pressed to assess the show critically...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Watching the Dances of the Little People | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

...Questions I couldn't figure out, Part Two: This one is perhaps the strangest question in the entire 18-page booklet: "Please assess the contribution of each of the following to the development of your sense of social responsibility and contribution to society." A variety of choices, including "House experience," are listed. Who says Harvard students necessarily have a "sense of social responsibilty"? Who would say that the "House experience" promotes this kind of responsibility? And why is this on a survey about College life? Strange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORANDUM | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...meant to imply that the survey is worthless--statistics are a valuable, if unreliable, measure of student opinion. But as any undergraduate can attest, students and their lives are not reducible to numbers or measurement. A survey on the quality of College life can only begin to assess the qualitative problems they face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORANDUM | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

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