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...stories of scores of students whose belongings were mismanaged by CollegeBoxes last summer attest to the company’s disregard for its own policies and for the customer’s needs. Knowing this, student leaders privately and publicly (including in an Undergraduate Council resolution and a Crimson editorial) called on Harvard to show better judgment than to be taken in by the racket again. Thanks to Harvard’s apparent gullibility to the salesmanship of CollegeBoxes, our only university-supported summer storage option is to gamble with our physical possessions...
...Throughout the film Meadows deals deftly with the cultural confusions of the skinhead movement, whose members' bedrooms - replete with vintage posters of blaxploitation flicks and ska-music icons - attest to the influence of foreigners, and of Jamaicans in particular...
...looked good on camera,” he says. “They told us when we got there, ‘A quarter of this is dancing, the rest of it is reality show.’”Yet fellow dancers at Harvard can attest that—contrary to the ways of TV—Oladehin’s force on campus is really all about the dancing. “It’s worth noting that Kunle shapes discourse around dance at Harvard. When somebody brings up dance, they...
...that the words have to be handled carefully. Sung too sentimentally, too sadly, and they become trite; sung too angrily or sarcastically and they become meaningless. But the Arctic Monkeys get it just right with this song, as they do on the whole album. As their last few lines attest, “In my imagination you’re waiting lying on your side / With your hands between your thighs / And a smile.” It’s a post-storm rainbow and a hopeful indication of what the Monkeys will be like when they?...
...matter how many institutions join forces to take on the rankings, the question is, What can they offer as an alternative? As U.S. News can attest, more meaningful metrics are hard to come by. Says Kelly: "Whenever we can get better data, we use it." One way to compare educational quality would be if more colleges published the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement, which is administered by Indiana University and is already used internally by hundreds of schools to gauge such things as how much students feel challenged by the curriculum. Yes, student opinion is an imperfect...