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...Time Out Or Burn Out” essay doesn’t just recommend gap years like mine; it also encourages students to take time off during their enrollment, a sentiment echoed throughout the College...
...dining hall special dish again. Instead, he’s got an unlimited supply of burgers from Harvard Square’s newest restaurant at his disposal. Ehrlich won the lifetime supply of burgers from b.good, the new burger joint on Dunster Street that opened yesterday, by writing an essay professing his love of burgers and lack of girlfriends, which he says enables him to be more committed to fast food consumption.“My blatant lack of a love life will make me a better cousin,” Ehrlich said, referring to the name of the restaurant?...
...percent or more of final grades in humanities classes, but TFs rarely delineate how such grading occurs. TFs can use the participation grade to encourage improved listening, for example, by valuing responses to classmates’ comments over disconnected, individual contributions. I also (with inspiration from insightful student essay of Paul Davis ’07) propose that half our participation grade should be derived from a short, straightforward reading quiz given at the beginning of each section. Not only will a quiz keep well-intending procrastinators such as myself from falling behind on the syllabus, but it will improve...
...disappointed by Joel Stein's supposedly humorous essay "What's Next ... with the Amish" [Oct. 24]. The piece had the potential to be informative and insightful about issues facing the Amish--particularly the use of new technology in the community. Stein, however, simply resorted to disrespectful "jokes." Just as it is inappropriate to poke fun at any ethnic minority, it is distasteful to do so with the Amish...
...reasonably deny that those of us who are HIV positive are obliged to act responsibly to prevent further transmission of the AIDS virus. Amitai Etzioni's view, however, is grossly wrongheaded ((Essay, Dec. 13)): for years the gay community has been taking concrete steps to educate people on how to prevent transmission of HIV. He utterly fails to address the irresponsibility of a society that neglects to educate its children adequately on AIDS ! prevention and relies on exhortations to abstinence rather than providing condoms, the most effective available means of prevention...