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...slip of paper, which you must have to pick up the coursebook,” said Mike, an employee at Gnomon Copy who declined to give his last name. “If you didn’t pay [for the coursepack] beforehand, then we would print out a lot of coursepacks that no one would pick up. This way, the student just has to take a little responsibility...
...full-service health clinic in the building. Set up by St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, it offered everything from immunizations to sport physicals to treatment for venereal disease. Significantly, it also advised teenagers on contraception and dispensed prescriptions for birth control devices (provided that parents had agreed beforehand to allow their children to visit the clinic...
While students learn of their English honors recommendation beforehand, they are not informed of their Latin awards until Commencement...
...with committees serving a merely perfunctory role—led to the crisis of the last six months. Allowed to attend because of my seat on the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), I had been warned not to expect much from faculty meetings: a few people nibbling on cookies beforehand, then the “memorial minutes” honoring deceased professors, and finally a few pro forma comments and shows of hands. But this spring, meetings became instead intense, intelligent discussions of how to fix poor management at the University. Seeing the administration “behind the scenes?...
...disagree. The Harvard student body demands two things from its UC representatives: accountability and enthusiasm. Committees should not be able to blame the entire UC for passing poorly planned expenditures that their members bring before the council. More work needs to be done in committees to vet proposals beforehand. To ensure this level of accountability, UC reps must be fit—both in expertise and inclination—for their committees, which in turn must be encouraged to end their reliance on the full council to make all the tough decisions on the merits of each bill...