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Benjamin A. Rahn '99, also a member of CUE,says council membership did not seem to add anyweight to his words in committee...
Luckily for you, it's CUE Guide Time...
Unfortunately, too few students take advantage of this opportunity. Somehow, students' fears and frustrations concerning their courses tend to dissipate the moment those lovely ScanTron forms appear. CUE Guide forms need to be distributed on previously-specified days so that all students can take advantage of the forms. Nearly eighty-five ninety-sevenths of those who bother filling out the forms hail and applaud their professors and teaching fellows, bestowing fours and fives upon them with reckless abandon. Only a handful bother with twos or threes and only the tiniest smattering of students dare to bubble...
Meanwhile, the CUE Guide is under attack. Some administrators have threatened to remove one of the Guide's most helpful features, its endorsement of individual teaching fellows. Unless this is part of a sinister plot to impede our education in the name of public image, there appears to be no logical reason for this move. The sad fact of many of Harvard's courses is that teaching fellows are the ones doing most of the teaching, making the names of recommended TFs even more important than those of recommended professors. If anything, more TFs should be rated, not fewer...
...school where advising is one of the greatest institutional weaknesses, the CUE Guide is one of the last bastions of unbiased and even-handed advice. But in order for it to be useful, students have to be both thorough and brutally honest in their feedback. Just because our grades are inflated does not mean that our professors' should be. When you receive that CUE Guide form this week, tell the truth. Future generations of Harvard students will be forever grateful...