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...neutral housing is not an attempt to isolate students that do not fit within traditional gender roles but instead a pragmatic allocation of resources to those who would best be served by them. Ideally, transgender students at Harvard would not face a harsh and prejudicial climate. While the administration cannot undo stereotypes by fiat, it can and should create a more accepting environment by giving transgender students priority for gender-neutral housing...
...good night’s sleep” on a regular basis. Harvard, in particular, fosters an exceptionally insidious anti-sleep culture that compounds the conventional collegiate obstacles to sleep with demands arising from its ultra-competitive environment. This culture—or our sleep patterns—cannot be changed by a few well-meaning seminars and pamphlets. The problem is vast, but the solution is simple, sweet, and already known: Each of us must make a proactive decision to reform personal sleep habits and thus recreate the culture of sleep at Harvard...
...While we cannot blame all our problems on a lack of sleep, many are certainly exacerbated by it and some are generated directly by it. Sleep deprivation and irregular sleep—as medical phenomena—connect to almost every sphere of student life. Lack of sleep can lead to depression, lack of intellectual concentration, weakened immune systems, and heightened anxiety, all of which can create dire consequences for intellectual and social life...
...normal” is anything but; consecutive days of barely sleeping are not viewed as dangerous, but as a laudable mark of strength. We envy peers that can somehow thrive on three hours of sleep and an unlimited number of espressos a day, wondering why we cannot do the same without crippling sleepiness...
...said. “The biggest concern is that people who are taking Cores are getting screwed. But at least they are trying to do something about it.” Students in Core classes are required to take final exams, which means OCS cannot issue certification letters for seniors enrolled in those courses until the end of the final exam period, which falls in late May. One student asked Gross if under such circumstances, and with the small number of seniors that are affected, the policy could be suspended. “I don’t want...