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...rise of an “internship culture” where students engage in an “arms race” to add more and more lines to their resumes, and a United States under the Bush administration where he said citizens—collegiates being no exception??face a heightened sense of financial uncertainty...
...school at the 2002 Olympic torch relay in Juneau, Alaska. His principal argued that the sign encouraged drug use and interfered with the educational mission of the school. Kenneth Starr of Monica Lewinsky fame, who represented the principal, asked the court to carve out a “drug exception?? to student free speech. This represents the virulent erosion of centuries of constitutional precedent and is a slippery slope towards an even sharper reduction in the free speech rights of students. After all, if “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” tangentially relates to school curriculum...
...anything new. Rumors of some elusive Golden Age of Harvard academics––when professors and tutors "actually" cared about teaching, when graduate students did not need to publish-or-perish at the expense of instruction, and when learning was the rule, not the exception??–have been circulating about campus since I arrived. Yet when it comes to undergraduate teaching (and cries for its improvement), things haven’t changed much in 300 years...
Were institutional structures to blame, then the president would be fighting his faculty most of the time. Yet, a cursory examination of the last three decades shows that conflict has been the exception??nowhere near a rule. Instead, Harvard history reveals that faculty-administration and inter-faculty dialogue has been conducted on an informal and ad hoc basis. This system has been both flexible and effective when there has been a high level of trust between the faculty and administration. There is no reason to change this paradigm because we had one unusual crisis...
...main characters accept poverty as both a necessary byproduct of refusing to sell out and a hip way to spend one’s youth. The characters live their bohemian lives right next to a massive homeless community, but the homeless enter the film—with one exception??only as extras or in rhetoric. The makers of “Rent” understand that homelessness is a problem in Alphabet City, but they choose to focus their energies on the artists next door.To be fair, not every character in “Rent” seems...