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Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "Those schools reflect a backlash against rampant peer domination in junior high and high schools in the country as a whole." Parents of students who have transferred out of public high schools complain that their children were made fun of for wanting to study and for refusing to dance or take drugs. As Theologian Carl F.H. Henry, former editor of Christianity Today, puts it: "A reasonable case is no longer made' in the public schools for moral absolutes...
...difficult to measure the amount of time that students lose because their professors are in Washington. In the economics department, the faculty-student ration can be a cause for concern, Griliches argues, explaining that some students in the department complain that they have problems reaching faculty members. But students can also take advantage of their professors' activities. Jonathan A. Berman '81 says that he has worked closely with his Kennedy School thesis advisor at the firm where the professor has been consulting and that he will be working there next year...
...seed Harvard has planted with its tenants is starting to bear fruit; a month ago, they began to band together in a Harvard tenant union to complain about abuses and demand fairer treatment. And there are some signs their tactics will work--the most hopeful proof is the experience of the city government in recent months. For generations Harvard ignored the city problems, including those to which they contribute; this year, though, the city won the right to regulate University expansion. And with that power came new leverage. Cambridge has been able to force Harvard to the bargaining table...
These days, perhaps because the guidelines--which regulate every aspect of a course, from its general approach to its reading list--have become more familiar, Faculty members still complain of the difficulty involved in preparing a Core proposal but seem less reluctant to give it a try. Per Nykrog, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, says he agreed to offer a course, Literature and Arts A-23, "Realistic Novel and Social Consciousness in 19th Century France" only after "they asked me to," but echoes many other Core professors when he adds, "I look forward to presenting my field to people...
Dottin arrested Holt--using handcuffs--at about 10:45 a.m. after Holt returned to Putnam and Kinnaird to complain about the patrolman's conduct toward him during an incident at the same corner earlier in the morning, Holt said...