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...pluses will be ineffective if it is not accompanied by grading discipline on the part of course leaders. However, this effort, to actually preserve the way they grade, seems easier than any other method of grade differentiation. In any case, something must be done, because, eight years after The Boston Globe declared our grading system the “laughingstock of the Ivy League,” we haven’t progressed very far. The point of grades should be to emphasize relative, not absolute, achievement. To this end, if it is easier to create A-pluses than...
Jackson F. Cashion ‘13, said that he was supporting Alan Khazei because “he’s really inspiring with his work in public service”, which includes founding the non-profit organization City Year for urban development in Boston...
...decision of a group of protestors—which included several Harvard students—to stage a “sleep-out” in support of climate-change legislation last Monday evening in Boston Common might strike observers as odd. Yet while setting up tents in the very tame wilderness of central Boston is peculiar, the cause the demonstrators supported is not. The students, through their transient tent city, intended to call attention to climate change and show support for introducing a bill that would require Massachusetts to be powered with 100-percent renewable energy...
Also, while Harvard’s officers didn’t hand out any arrests or citations last night, city police might not be so accommodating. Yet students who chose to return to future sleep-outs planned in Boston will have to do so knowing that Harvard’s standard protocol stipulates that any student who is arrested is subject to a six-month mandatory leave and that the university has declined to state whether it would apply the same standard to those arrested while sleeping...
...battlefields of the Middle East and their casualties. Wodiczko’s focus has been on the dialogue of veterans; he will often project video of the veterans speaking, while broadcasting their words. His most recent work, created for and shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, is smaller in scale, but does not depart from the frank manner in which he addresses war. Wodiczko attempts to make his audiences understand the nature of war by inundating them with emotionally charged visual and auditory material. He comes tantalizingly close by plastering safe and static public buildings with...