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...end of October, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of D/R’s introduction of Marimekko to the United States, Thompson held a reception in the award-winning building. The Marimekko president flew in from Finland to attend...
Akpan missed a penalty kick in Sunday’s game—a goal that would have given him sole possession of the all-time Harvard scoring record—and remains tied with Chris Ohiri ’64. Akpan graduates at the end of this semester, and will very likely be drafted into Major League Soccer...
Changing the calendar has been tricky. With the first academic year under the newly reformed calendar nearly halfway complete, students have begun to absorb its implications, and an unintended consequence of calendar change has emerged—namely, the end of the semester has become considerably more stressful for students than in previous years. Given that one often-cited goal of calendar reform was to reduce student stress, this is an issue that the administration ought to seriously address when fine-tuning the calendar for future years...
...impending exams. In the past, this arrangement would not be such a problem (the spring semester has always transitioned from classes directly into reading and exam period), but because reading period has been shortened from ten days to seven days in both the fall and spring semesters, the term-end transition has become significantly more stressful...
...potential response to the stresses of a shorter reading period would be for professors to avoid assigning the heavy workloads at the end of the fall semester that would have been manageable under the old calendar, and instead opt to distribute the workload more evenly throughout the semester. Too many professors this fall maintained their old syllabi structures without considering the potential impact of calendar reform on end-of-term student workloads...