Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tempting as it is to blame the administration and the Faculty for the failings of student government at Harvard, they are not the only guilty parties. Students are perhaps equally responsible for the present system of impotent committees. Unlike most high schools or prep schools, Harvard is not a self-enclosed community where students spend eight hours a day, five days a week studying and playing for four years. And unlike high school, being elected to a student committee at Harvard does not mean you are the most popular or best-looking kid in the class. Most students couldn...
...asked to elaborate, a proponent of the Forgotten Undergraduates Theory would blame faculty members for his plight, explaining that they're all either trying to publish, or making pots of money doing consulting work, or off skiing in Gstaad. The system for rising through the academic hierarchy here does not, after all, reward teaching ability...
When there's no villain, it gets very easy to blame yourself. I sat through an entire year of Ec 10, usually the only woman in the section on any given day, and I never opened my mouth unless I was forced to. Every day I would promise myself I would raise my hand; at night I would lie awake trying to think of questions that wouldn't sound embarrassingly stupid; and after every section, I would leave despondent, furious at myself, my muteness unbroken. I can't help wondering now how different things might have been if there...
...problem, say Senate investigators, is that institution staffs find it easier to control troubled or obstreperous children when they are heavily sedated. Sometimes the results can be tragic. A North Carolina doctor and his wife blame the death of their retarded daughter last June on an overdose of Thorazine administered in a state institution. Education Researcher Kenneth Wooden, who recently visited juvenile facilities in 30 states as part of a Ford Foundation research project, charges that "thousands of children have been placed in human warehouses where hard drugs are administered like candy...
Traveler, if you 're an Alexandrian, you won't blame...