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...need to be on campus.”At present, a student-faculty committee led by Assistant Dean of Advising Programs Inge-Lise Ameer is drafting an application for students seeking to stay on campus over break and otherwise determining logistics for the period. Ameer said that the bar for accommodating requests is “pretty high” and that the application will ask students why they need to be on campus, who they are affiliated with, and the contact information necessary to verify their affiliation. According to Kidd, the number of students who will be granted housing...
...Harvard College Library officials announced that the Quad library would be closed next year as a cost-cutting measure and would instead be reapportioned as a social space. Six days later, the larger cuts package was announced, including the closure of the Penthouse Coffee Bar at the Student Organization Center at Hilles...
...According to a Quad Library employee, who wished to remain anonymous to preserve his relationship with the College, 12 students were employed there this semester; the Penthouse Coffee Bar employed eight students at the beginning of last semester, says Cafe Manager Charlie R. Ryland...
...pouring blood, sweat, and tears into our academic experience. We have also taken what amounts essentially to distribution requirements (as dirty as the phrase might be) in other disciplines, learning how magical numbers can be or how the dinosaurs lived. However, while, for the most part, Harvard sets the bar for the academic side of education, we have learned far less in life matters than our peers at less esteemed and admired institutions. The “Harvard Bubble” is real, and we are insulated by it from reality. Too much coddling from the College is harmful...
...deadline, but there is something to be said about teaching time management and the ability to meet deadlines in the first place. I am not arguing for a greater degree of paternalism on the part of the University, but rather that expectations should not be so flexible with the bar being lowered on a case-by-case basis. Another area in which Harvard fails to teach more important lessons is in the area of criticism. There are far too many teaching fellows and professors who fail to criticize students when they make mistakes. It would be entirely possible...