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...cannot fault Juliette N. Kayyem's sentiments for the "poor and oppressed" in her opinion piece of January 26, but her contention that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and his school-of-Reginald Bacon politics are what the Democratic Party and the nation need is both unfortunate and unsupported by the 1988 campaign. The poor and oppressed of America hardly deserve the ignominy that whould likely result from association with Jackson...
These professors argue that the student-faculty social barrier is the fault of the student for not actively pursuing contact. "We are available," they profess, "but the students must supply the initiative...
...somewhat more successful attempt has been the seminar program, whose only fault lies in its inaccessability--often, students must eke through a pot-luck lottery to enroll. In addition, seminars and other small departmental courses are many times squeezed out of a student's schedule by the inevitable Core classes. The Core, invariably huge and intimidatingly impersonal, may well be the biggest culprit in depriving students of faculty contact...
Much of the fault for this high attrition rate lies with the introductory physics courses taken by first year students. These courses, required for engineering and physics concentrators, tend to be mathematically ugly, due to the nature of mechanics and electromagnetism, and unrewarding, owing to the introductory nature of the material. However, by the time that the investment in these introductory courses pays off in more interesting, more advanced courses or even research, many students find themselves in other fields...
There are ways to make the technology more reliable. Fault-tolerant computers like those built by Stratus, Tandem and, for that matter, AT&T reduce runaway system errors by a kind of "paranoid democracy," where modules working in parallel constantly evaluate whether their electronic co- workers are "sane" or "crazy." Unfortunately, as last week's breakdown showed, it is possible for all the modules to go crazy at once. Software, always the skittish part of any system, can also be made more dependable by imposing the kind of discipline on programmers that engineering standards impose on, say, bridge designers...