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...that I didn’t think it was fair to my committee to be running in a competitive campus-wide election when I should have been dedicating myself to this role, which is really challenging,” she said. “It is very, very difficult to do a good job as SAC chair if you are planning an election...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Steering the SAC | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...high school, it was simpler. Students pushed to assemble records that would get them into top colleges. With tougher competition in college, it becomes more difficult to achieve the near flawless transcript. And, with many more post-graduate options, it is difficult to feel a clear sense of direction...

Author: By Tom A. Dingman | Title: Thoughts On Success | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...poetry, I would submit, asks questions, raises issues, makes complaints, marks territories. Bad poetry does not take on the more difficult task, where the question and its answer are as one… Or put it this way: the poem is an answer to a question or questions no one, including the poet, had thought...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Tonight: "Alice in the Wasteland" | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...designated “Mental Health Awareness Month.” Last spring was the first year the events occurred within the span of a week. Lianna E. Karp ’10, a student mental health liaison and co-chair of MHAAG, said that it is often difficult for students to tell others when they need help with a mental health issue. “I’m not sure if [mental health at Harvard] is overlooked. The better word for it is that students sometimes just don’t feel comfortable with...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Promotes Mental Health Awareness | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Milwaukee, Archbishop Dolan got generally good marks in a difficult situation. His predecessor, Archbishop Rembert Weakland, was forced out after it was revealed that the archdiocese had paid a $450,000 settlement to a man who claimed that Weakland tried to sexually assault him. Weakland admitted an "inappropriate relationship" but denied abuse. Soon after, Dolan had to parry a mini-revolt among some of Milwaukee's priests, who signed a petition saying celibacy should be optional in the future. Although he was firm in upholding orthodoxy, in this and other cases, Dolan tended to respond without rancor or imperiousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York's New Archbishop: A Winning Papal P.R. Move | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

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