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Specifically, we hope, except in rare circumstances, that the UC avoids polling directly on legislative items. Doing so would allow the UC to use referenda as a crutch when it feels like avoiding particularly divisive or hairy issues. Moreover, such polling might endow a false sense of legitimacy for the UC to take stands on political issues like foreign policy, domestic policy, or janitor wages—a distraction we have repeatedly lambasted the UC in the past...
...rest of their academic careers. These introductory offerings are often watered-down experiences for which one really doesn’t need to come to Harvard. Furthermore, students trapped in introductory lectures are left to choose a concentration without full knowledge of what awaits them in regular departmental classes. Except for the rather unique freshman seminars, there is not a lot about the average Harvard freshman year that makes it Harvard-specific: much of the learning could have taken place in an environment far less particular (and particularly less expensive). The difficulty of making good first-year academic decisions...
...comfort to Harvard students that most other colleges in the Boston and Cambridge area have similar snow policies. Officials at Northeastern, Boston University, and Boston College said that closure due to snow is very rare. However, unlike Harvard—which appears to have been devoid of snow days except for the three days in 1978—officials at these schools said their universities on average close down due to inclement weather anywhere from once a year to once every couple years. Some of Harvard’s biggest rival schools also shut down more frequently. Princeton just last...
...remained in close contact with his students until December. A prolific author, he has three books being published in the next few months, according to his wife. “My father had two great loves: his scholarship and teaching. He was never really hard to get along with except when he was grading exams because he was upset about the students who hadn’t done well,” George von Mehren said. “When someone in one of his classes had an insight which he had never thought of,” he added...
Monday's news that Iran has postponed Moscow talks, scheduled to start Thursday, on having its uranium enriched in Russia, and has instead resumed its own enrichment activities, was hardly stunning - except, perhaps, to Russian President Vladimir Putin...