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...Harvard students, we often commend ourselves on the diversity of our personal interests and our shared inability to shake addictions to mood elevating prescription drugs. But in doing this, we myopically ignore the most beleaguered and varied population on our campus—Teaching Fellows. Or, as I like to call them, “TFs.”TFs come in many different forms, but they all have the same job: teaching a crap-load of thankless material to a room full of phenomenally annoying 18-year-olds.Some have come to terms with this fact and are extremely jolly in consequence...
...essential that University Hall recognize that not only should it be taking cues from the Undergraduate Council (UC), student groups, and the residential Houses, but also from student-athletes. We commend the UC for its eagerness to represent athletic concerns. Yet the disparity between student-athletes and their needs on campus begins with the disconnect between the various administrative offices on campus. For progress to be made, SAAC must be given an expanded role...
...Questioning the War I commend TIME for the forum of views on the Iraq war, "Was It Worth It?" [March 27]. While the question may not have immediate relevance to our policy options in Iraq, it provides an important framework to evaluate future actions. I was disturbed, however, that none of the experts you gathered weighed the cost of the war abroad against investments at home. Had the U.S. taken the billions of dollars spent on the war and instead invested in a moon-shot-style program to gain energy independence, would such a war even have been necessary? What...
...seat on the council. The more stringent standard was meant to prevent countries like Iran and Sudan—notorious for their gross violations of human rights—from gaining membership, as they had been able to do on the former U.N. Commission on Human Rights. We commend the U.S. for pushing for this higher standard, especially given that its own tenuous human rights record may have prevented it from winning a seat on the council. Yet, we fear that its final decision barks again of a chronic unwillingness to compromise. If the U.N. is to become an effective...
...Vietnam War, it seems to taint the reputation and humanity of all it touches and belies what's left of any claim to a just war. We're a long way from the heroism of the Marines at Iwo Jima. Michael Burns Elkton, Maryland, U.S. Questioning the War I commend time for the forum of views on the Iraq war, "Was It Worth It?" [March 27]. While the question may not have immediate relevance to our policy options in Iraq, it provides an important framework to evaluate future actions. I was disturbed, however, that none of the experts you gathered...