Word: contact
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...failing—but the proposal falls far short of its intent. In addition to the pedagogical value of activities, the faculty expresses hope that course-related activities will encourage teamwork and foster student-faculty interaction. But current student organizations are already built on teamwork. And, while student-faculty contact could certainly be improved, this unwieldy framework is not the best means of doing so. If an activity requirement is mandatory, it will leave professors too overwhelmed to have meaningful interactions with students. If the project is optional, then the College can better facilitate student-faculty contact through a more...
It’s certainly not like tennis or golf, strictly non-contact sports in which fisticuffs would be so shocking as to border on comical...
BOTH Mandatory: coat and tie, firm handshake, eye contact...
...community or be effective as teachers distresses me, because it is at heart disingenuous. Clearly, meaningful social exchange requires a face. And the argument that non-verbal communication is inessential only addresses half the problem. The obscured woman, who can see her interlocutor clearly through her slits, is enjoying contact with a face; it's the other party, conversing with a tiny black tent, that bears the burden of the discomfort. It would be more sincere for niqab-wearers to say that they accept the cost of refusing to compromise on the niqab; that it will be considered provocative...
...reserves desk. Leave it to Harvard students to make a student center out of a study space. Lamont is not even efficient anymore, because its inhabitants are going insane. Not only do they not sleep (unless you count drooling facedown on a desk as sleeping), they have slim contact with the world outside the library. Sexual and social frustration is so thick in Lamont’s reading rooms that even the most chaste study-worm feels violated. Harvard students, liberate yourselves. Swing open those heavy doors and take in the crisp air of Harvard Yard. Venture back to your...