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...awareness about these more significant events. All this media attention does not go unnoticed by the administration—who are notorious for allowing public pressure to influence their focus. Given the media’s ability to affect administrative priorities, it is to Harvard’s detriment that the press has chosen to be so shallow. It took years for Harvard to get its act together and form a committee to deal with the serious sexual assault problem on campus. Yet after the public pressure following the news of H Bomb, the administration promptly released a statement saying...
...withdrawn after wide criticism) was forcing students to choose their courses a semester in advance. But that system did not account for the inevitable enrollment swings that would have resulted from the liberal add/drop period it proposed in place of shopping, and the plan would have worked to the detriment of student flexibility. Where preregistration failed, this new initiative prevails...
...Scott is the brand distributed to most of campus. Xpedex, which distributes the toilet paper to most of FMO gets a special price on Scott from the manufacturer because the University buys so much of it. So residents of FMO-supplied Houses have been suffering—to the detriment of their intellectual musings—under the rough touch of Scott for quite some time...
...imperative that the council start soon. They should proactively piece together a vision for undergraduate education that makes student concerns a priority—instead of allowing Harvard to remain an impersonal research institution which has a tendency to err on the side of administrative convenience to the detriment of educational benefit...
...Prioritizing academics to the detriment of other facets of student life can seriously hurt students who feel they must fulfill academic goals and ignore other concerns, Quinn says...