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Today, the Undergraduate Council launches a new service for students called the “teaching hotline.” Conceived as a supplement to end-of-the-semester CUE evaluations, this program will hopefully enable students to improve their classes as soon as pedagogical problems arise. While we are confident, especially in light of the recent report issued by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, that Harvard’s students, teaching fellows (TFs), and faculty members all share the goal of improving teaching, this service will undoubtedly catch disapproving eyes. We hope, however, that through...
Jared J. Pearlman ’08 is a history concentrator in Quincy House and a member of the Committee on Pedagogy. Ryan A. Petersen ’08 is a history concentrator in Quincy House and president of the Undergraduate Council. Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 is a philosophy concentrator in Mather House and vice president of the Undergraduate Council...
...middle school lubricated the inevitable unease of Valentine’s Day by allowing students to purchase carnations through the student council and have them delivered to unsuspecting kids in homeroom on February 14. Apparently this was supposed to open our eyes to the wide world of gift giving and displays of romantic affection. Unfortunately for the students of Deer Path Junior High, not all of us were the cool kids who drank beer and made out, and the nerdy pre-pubescent twelve-year-old who gives another nerdy pre-pubescent twelve-year-old a pink carnation on Valentine?...
Teaching fellow performance has joined eating concerns, sexual health questions, and peer support networks in the realm of Harvard student hotlines. A new e-mail domain allowing student feedback on TF performance went live at 11:59 last night, after being arranged and approved by the Undergraduate Council (UC). Students who want to relay concerns—or compliments—about particular TFs can now send an e-mail to TF@hcs.harvard.edu and have their comments addressed confidentially and promptly, according to a bill unanimously passed by the UC yesterday. Crucial to the implementation of “The Teaching...
...Canon EOS camera lens valued at $800. There were no suspicious individuals seen in the area at the time of the theft. Feb. 8 1:32 p.m.—An officer took a report of an individual receiving annoying phone calls at the Bureau of Study Council, 5 Linden Street in Cambridge. 7:52 p.m.—An officer was dispatched to take a report of ninety chocolate cakes valued at $1,700 that were stolen from Holyoke Center at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Feb. 9 2:38 a.m.—An officer was dispatched...