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From my discussions with both readers and editors, some suggestions for further improvements emerged. At present, beat reporters are assigned only to the bigger sports such as basketball, football and soccer. The Crimson should assign a beat reporter or executive to every sport, so that someone feels responsible for keeping up with the sport, regardless of how often it ends up being covered. To supplement this, each sport could have a Crimson liaison, whose job it would be to keep the reporter informed about upcoming events and past results...
...would be far too easy to assign blame to institutions like the residential houses for failing to provide adequate support networks for students or to our professors and teaching fellows for burdening us with unrealistic amounts of work. But while blaming peoples may be a natural reaction, it cannot change what has already happened and it does nothing for our grief...
...computer lottery will randomly assign blocking groups to different houses," Housing Officer Mac J. Broderick said...
...often invite a mixture of scorn and fear. Yet contrary to popular belief, grad students are not actually evil. It's just that they do the reserve reading. If you look at a syllabus from a graduate-level seminar, you may be astonished to learn that most of then assign no tangible work whatsoever except for a final exam or other project due at the end of the term. Lo, take heed, ye foolish undergraduates, and learn ye the Ways of the 200-Level Course. You see, in graduate school, they no longer have exams and papers scattered throughout...
Unfortunately, most Harvard students don't need a judge or jury to tell us what we quickly learned upon arrival. Shoddy advising starts with apathetic and out-of-touch first-year proctors, continues with large departments that don't assign advisers and comes to a head with Houses that don't even bother to replace already apathetic and mismatched advisers who have quit without warning. With the murder-suicide, the Harvard community realized amid tragedy that failure to provide adequate advising can have disastrous consequences--not just for those who "slipped through the cracks," but for their roommates, housemates...