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...students who voted in the referendum this week, 2,914 cast a ballot in favor of a UC proposal that would also extend winter break to four weeks and have the spring final exam period end more than a week earlier. Meanwhile, 549 students voted against the proposal, Petersen said...
...least the belief that it exists - can have a similar effect. If the world outside the home seems to be conspiring in the mistreatment, the sense of invalidation grows worse still. It may be true that none of us suffer a lost job, a busted romance or a failed exam easily, but to someone already highly sensitized to such setbacks, they can be intolerable. "These are people who are already angry," says Samenow, "and when things don't go the way they want them to, they personalize it. They take out their rage not on the person who hurt them...
...Harvard’s anachronistic calendar to change. Today through tomorrow at noon, log on to the UC website and vote yes on this important proposition. The UC’s proposal calls for beginning the 2008-2009 school year 13 days earlier in September and ending the fall exam period on Dec. 22. The proposed calendar also preserves reading period and ends the academic year earlier in May, bringing Harvard in line with peer universities. The highlight of the plan is an extended winter break that lasts until Jan. 19—thus eliminating the stress of looming papers...
...vote, to be held online from noon today until noon on Friday, will ask students to approve or condemn a UC proposal that calls for a longer winter break and a fall exam period ending before the December vacation...
...notably an ongoing curricular review which is finally coming to a conclusion—are being lifted. There is no longer any reason for delay. Harvard is one of a few universities that drag students back to campus after a brief winter break to write term papers and take exams. It’s a cruel system that denies Harvard students a full or relaxing winter break and makes Cantabs the butt of many jokes from their friends who are returning home for real winter breaks. Fortunately, the calendar is a problem that can be easily fixed. By moving...