Word: disconnected
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...scene at Harvard, say organizers.According to WHRB chief operator Joey F. Quinn ’08, the problem lies not just with the University, but with the students themselves. “There’s plenty of rock bands, plenty of music, but there’s a disconnect between the arts community and the rest of the student body,” he says. “If there is a scene, it’s not brought to enough awareness.”According to station president Kimberly E. Gittleson ’08, WHRB...
...phenomenon stems in part from the disconnect that students can legitimately feel when they move from Expos to courses in their concentrations, where writing assignments in the disciplines place new demands on them. What counts for evidence in psychology, for example, is different from what counts for evidence in anthropology, history, economics, literature, or the life sciences. What is considered an interesting question in one discipline will be irrelevant in another. No single Expos course can possibly equip a student to know how to write as a specialist in a field, much less in several...
...Expos preceptors, faculty, and administrators share the concern that there is a disconnect between the foundation of skills and principles laid by Expos and the writing instruction that students receive in their sophomore, junior, and senior years. To be sure, many professors, tutors, lecturers, and section leaders make clear to their students the relationship between discipline-specific expectations and the elements of analytical writing that are common to the disciplines. At the same time, however, when students receive minimal feedback on their writing or are not introduced to the specific requirements of writing in the discipline, they feel justifiably disappointed...
...dreadfully misguided. Because it relies on the logic of representation, the system-internal strategy endorses a conception of power that ultimately stultifies those it originally sought to serve. It expects the newly-empowered to represent their constituents’ interests completely. Against this, we must assert that the disconnect between power and the people—intrinsic to representative government—cannot be bridged permanently by the good will, intellect, or charm of the powerful. Instead, these managers of political change end up drowning in their own privileges. Because the seat of power is segregated from the general life...
...small subset of Harvard’s undergraduate population, FM’s research suggests the existence of a sizeable number of students who don’t label themselves as politically Libertarian but do hold libertarian views on various social and economic topics. But there is a serious disconnect: while the proportion of students who hold libertarian beliefs (with a small “l”) might be growing, the growth of Libertarianism as an organized political party (with a capital “L”) is constrained by the entrenched two-party system and general confusion...