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Thesis writers accustomed to working from their personal nooks in Lamont Library may have to finish their theses in more foreign territory. The recent statements of Interim Dean of Advising Programs Inge-Lise Ameer raise the prospect that some senior thesis writers who wish to stay on campus during J-term may be denied for lacking a “clear need.” This restrictiveness is unwise and harmful—any student who wants should be allowed to remain on campus to work on a thesis...
Even thesis writers who can’t claim a specific need to access labs or archives could have compelling reasons to be allowed on campus. The Harvard campus is an incomparable working environment for many students. In creating the new January break and moving exams to before winter recess, the administration acknowledged this implicitly. Studying for exams during break was both stressful and difficult. There is a psychological benefit to working in a Lamont, your house library, the dining hall, or your Harvard room. They provide the rigorous academic atmosphere that homes and local libraries cannot recreate. For many...
...note, theses can frequently change course midway, requiring a student to access resources he might not have expected to need. Forcing students without “clear need” to leave restricts this possibility. We understand that the university is worried about unoccupied students getting into trouble on campus if they do not have a reason to be there. Nevertheless, Harvard students who are under pressure to produce a quality thesis will have plenty of work to occupy their time...
...stories of children who have been suspended for violations of zero-tolerance school policies are legion and often involve absurd situations. Take the seven-week suspension of Texas high school student Amy Deschenes, whose spotless academic and disciplinary record was soiled when campus police found her stepbrother's theater prop sword in the backseat of her car. Weapons, including swordlike objects, are forbidden according to the rules. But Deschenes and her family fought back, and now, thanks to them and a band of like-minded lobbying parents, Texas has adopted a more forgiving, flexible...
...website of Hink's group details incident after incident of zero-tolerance absurdities and overreactions, some highlighted in press reports, others submitted by distraught parents who often complain they are not notified by school authorities until the child has been removed from campus. One mother of a young boy who helped a schoolmate set off a fire alarm learned of her son's plight from a text message he sent her: "Mom, I'm in trouble - please come to school." A second text followed: "I'm probably going to jail." She found her son in leg shackles at the juvenile...