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...creation of a culture of peer evaluation, and making course evaluations mandatory—are particularly important. Beyond those changes, we hope that teaching is made a more important part of tenure decisions, a critical step for changing the culture of teaching at an institution where so much is driven by career advancement. We also hope that FAS considers the possibility of expanding the number of lecturers that Harvard hires and repeals its irrational and patronizing eight year limit on the terms of full-time teachers, instead opting for contracts that can be renewed indefinitely. Yet rather than taking steps...
Yesterday’s announcement, according to UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, indicated the attentiveness of University leadership to student-driven advocacy...
...Harvard is an institution that aims to inspire civil, logic-driven, factual discussions. As its graduates, we must go into the world demanding these kinds of debates, even if we did not always find them here. We should draw on Harvard’s positive examples: I have seen, at times, constructive debate and genuine learning in classes, at the Harvard Political Union, Crimson editorial meetings, or just in casual discussions between friends. As the rancor and poisonous atmosphere in Washington seems to be spreading into Harvard, we graduates must make an effort to inject facts, logic, and civility into...
...Alabama politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. At the moment, the state's former Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, stands convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and faces a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Siegelman has long claimed that his prosecution was driven by politically motivated, Republican-appointed U.S. attorneys...
...Prague paparazzi frenzy is driven by cutthroat competition. Seventeen years after the fall of communism, Czechs no longer fear for the fate of their democracy and many have long since tired of reading about stale politics. So, the mainstream newspapers have gone soft, and the yellow press has flourished. "We have three tabloid dailies and they are fighting for survival," says Ondrej Hoeppner, a former editor of the fourth gossip sheet that had already succumbed...