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Harvard students often justifiably complain that our lives are overly stressful. The shift of Fall semester exams from January to December—a move that was favored by our peers by a two to one margin in a free-response online Undergraduate Council survey of more than 100 students carried out earlier this year—would provide a welcome stress-free block in the middle of the year. Especially as our school has become increasingly national and international, the importance of making the sometimes-long journey home with no accompanying work or conflicting commitments has increased...
...we’re always trying to slip through the cracks. We demand that the system be fair, as long as we ourselves can cheat. Like me: I insist on enforcing the strict interhouse rules that keep Leverett’s dining hall somewhat less crowded, and yet I complain with the best of them when I can’t get into Adams for lunch...
...Harvard scene is so widely disparaged as “blah” that even University administrators know about it. According to Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, surveys of outgoing seniors consistently complain about social life. “We know we have a problem,” she says. “It’s just the exact way to solve it that we haven’t figured...
...students have done more than just complain. For as long as they’ve been bemoaning their weak social lives, Harvard students have been proposing solutions. In a 1988 Crimson piece, Mitchell A. Orenstein ’89 suggested the Undergraduate Council (UC) buy out financially struggling final clubs...
...contractors will no doubt complain that this will increase their administrative costs and that they are therefore entitled to a larger markup on their workers’ labor,” Fenstermacher wrote in an e-mail. “None of this would happen if these jobs, which are clearly a continuing need, were filled by Harvard employees vetted by Human Resources to the same depth and by the same means as any other Harvard employee...