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This appreciation of his son’s experience reflects a sense most of the professors I talked to had about their students: the classroom is certainly not the place one “makes the most” of anything...
...allegedly stole an overhead classroom projector and is the prime suspect in several other projector thefts was arrested Saturday, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said...
There are many areas of campus that do not offer people the option of using gender-non-specific or single-stall bathrooms. Most classroom buildings have not a single gender-non-specific bathroom, forcing many of Harvard’s transgender and gender-variant students either to enter a bathroom that does not correspond with their gender identity or expression, risk violence or arrest or avoid using bathrooms during the day. For instance, if someone is not immediately perceived as female in a women’s bathroom, people may scream “there?...
...something he did. People talk about Tillman's charisma and his instantly authoritative manner. In 1995 Mike McBride was still new to his job as an academic counselor in ASU's athletic department when Tillman, a shaggy-haired freshman, first walked into his office to ask him how many classroom hours he would need to graduate. When McBride told him, Tillman shot back that it was McBride's job to make sure he didn't do any more or any less. "I had a weird reaction," says McBride. "I almost said, 'Yes, sir'--except he had that surfer hairdo...
Kids aren't the only ones afraid of classroom discipline these days. Teachers and other school officials are increasingly anxious about getting sued. Two-thirds of teachers surveyed said they worry at least as much about lawsuits as about test results. Such legal action has "a chilling effect on teachers' willingness to discipline students or even to pat them on the back," says John Mitchell of the American Federation of Teachers. Here are some recent school-related cases. --By Jeremy Caplan...