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Since Summers’ departure, the University has moved in that direction. While the President’s Office paid for last year’s spring concert, featuring the piano-pop virtuoso Ben Folds, the College footed the bill for this spring’s Third Eye Blind performance. Both events attracted thousands of undergraduates to the Yard...
...curriculum.Furthermore, the Faculty repeatedly balked at making teaching evaluations mandatory for all courses. Far from creating a “Harvard version of RateMyProfessor.com,” as one professor claimed at a Faculty meeting, evaluations are a valuable tool for pedagogical improvement, without which teachers are essentially feedback-blind. Though few professors opt out of such evaluations, leaving the option open at all amounts to providing a sop to professors’ whims and egos. While the Faculty did vote to mandate evaluations of all teaching fellows (TFs)—a critical step in the University?...
...courses.The Faculty has also resisted investing in the undergraduate experience. Student life—which was reinvigorated under Summers thanks to a philosophy that responded to and spent money on student satisfaction—proved to be interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles’ blind spot. We hope that Faust recognizes the importance of the undergraduate experience and continues Summers’ tradition of investing in Harvard College—from promoting social events to shoring up the College’s hit-or-miss advising system. To do so, we hope she takes the time...
Although the average undergraduate might sooner be able to sing outdated Third Eye Blind lyrics than launch into a description of the College’s role in social event planning, no Harvard student—no matter how detached—is able to avoid at least the trickle-down effects of the College’s influence on social life. Last spring, the outlook was bright for the future of space and funding for social life at the College, and we lauded the administrators and students who facilitated a new and improved social environment. With the foundation...
...preferred to watch it on television, but instead I had to come out and see it with my own eyes." Haq picked up her mobile phone and scrolled to a popular text message making the rounds, a paraphrase of Euripides: "Those whom the gods would destroy they first make blind, paranoid and insane...