Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's promises. ESPP, however, was given the chance to save it. An internal committee reviewed the ESPP concentration this year, providing the perfect opportunity for the concentration chairs to ask that the administration put its money at least vaguely near where its mouth is and commit funds to the course. When students and alumni learned that the class was going to be cancelled, they mounted a letter-writing campaign, appealing to the President, the Provost, the Dean of the Faculty and the ESPP committee on behalf of the class and its teachers. The letters emphasized the intimate tutorial...
...field. Adelson and Perlman are not interested in tenure--they are interested in teaching. And it is that passion and dedication that makes their class unique and irreplaceable. ESPP could have saved the class simply by listening to the students in the concentration and asking the administration to commit funds to hire these instructors in a different capacity. The ESPP committee chose...
...fourth rendition of the Sesame Street jam, I am beginning to appreciate the psychological factors that drive people to commit violent crimes--the fatigue, the desperation. I eye Sunkist boy's kneecaps. I envision what it would look like to shatter them with a crow bar into many tiny pieces. I suspect that such an act will harm my chances of successfully becoming a VJ, but at this point I don't give a damn...
...press the administration to recognize the need on campus for a student center. In light of the need, and desire, for a Harvard Student Center, the Undergraduate Council has called on the University for the following: make the Student center a priority on the next capital campaign and thereby commit to a timetable for its construction, hire an architect and begin drafting plans, and establish a planning committee with student members. By agreeing to take these steps, the administration will have acknowledged the pressing needs felt on campus and will also have begun the process of returning its focus towards...
...Edmonton Oilers without Wayne Gretzky is like Wheel of Fortune without Vanna White.") Gretzky moved again to St. Louis, Mo., and then to New York, but his quest for another Cup would not be fulfilled. The New York Rangers, a mess of a club, have been unable to commit to winning, so Gretzky decided to cut the tragedy short before people started to walk out of the theater...