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...Undergraduate Education on the right note last week when he announced that the quality of academic advising will be among his top concerns. The six students who sit with six faculty members on the committee rightly welcomed the announcement, and Evan J. Mandery '89, Undergraduate Council chairman and CUE representative, said he hoped a "model system" of advising could be set up this year...
...student CUE members seem to feel strongly that the best way to make sense of the mess would be to draw senior faculty members into it. No one who's spent an unproductive hour with a grad student as absorbed in his own work as any professor would disagree. Unfortunately, the CUE could never force tenured members of the Harvard faculty to take on more of the advising burden than they want...
...CUE would be remiss not to provide professors with the obligatory exhortations to get more involved with students. Of course those exhortations have been made lots of times. It might be interesting to see who has listened. Why doesn't CUE find out, for instance, how many senior theses various professors advise--and publish the results for all to see? Peer pressure might provide more effective motivation for take-it-easy profs than the shrill pronouncements of a student-faculty committee...
...making that and other types of information on advising available to students, CUE would complete a daunting task. And, in the end, the thing that makes the most practical difference to students in need of advice is knowledge enough of what's available to go out and use it. Whether advice is taken advantage of or not is each student's responsibility, and each student's problem...
...daily playercise," burbles Instructor Jackie Rubenstein, as she launches into a nursery-like rhyme: "Open, shut them, give a little clap, clap, clap, and put them in your lap, lap, lap . . ." On cue, 19 mothers seated in a circle on the floor grasp the wrists of the toddlers before them and dutifully push and pull tiny arms and hands. Rubenstein changes her tune, tykes are settled on their backs, and mothers pedal little limbs bicycle- style. Then to a third ditty, with youngsters in their laps, mothers inch their hips forward to the center of the ring where they lift...