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Yale-style housing is not the simple solution to freshman advising and freshman social life. It is unproductive to paint the housing system as such. Rather, the Curricular Review Committee and the administration should instead seek to fix advising and first-year student life without switching to Yale-style housing. There is no reason why the necessary improvements cannot take place within the current Harvard system...
...help fix advising, the prefect program should be enlarged to assign each student to an informal prefect advisor in his/her proposed field of concentration. This proposal would help increase interaction between freshmen and upperclassmen, and provide students with yet another advising resource. Concentrations should also begin to shoulder more of the advising burden, instead of dumping the responsibility on House tutors. Additionally, in all likelihood the HCCR will change the date when students declare their concentrations. If students declare their concentrations earlier, they will already have access to faculty concentration advisors during their first year. If concentrations are declared...
...compromise—is 66 words long and so brimming with compromise that it would take a herculean effort to disagree. It states that Summers should be rebuked for his comments and style of leadership, but that the faculty “appreciates his stated intent” to fix these problems. It’s all too easy to agree with any one of these three ideas and be lukewarm about the others, yet still vote in favor of the proposal...
Folks in Tazewell County know they better keep their eyes open, their toolsheds locked and their barn doors shut. Junkies, addicted to prescription pills and looking for anything to steal to pay for their next fix, have turned this 520-sq.-mi. patch of Appalachian Virginia--a bucolic tangle of wooded mountains, steep hills and rolling pastures dotted with sagging barns and country churches--into a society plagued by pilferers. They swipe guns from unlocked cabinets and push motorcycles out of garages in the dead of night. They swap or sell stolen watches, lawn mowers and sneakers for potent painkillers...
...markets; those of some countries, like Indonesia's, have never recovered. The introduction of VCDs and DVDs, legitimate and not, ate into box office. Fewer Asians were willing to shell out $7 to watch a Hong Kong film with sub-Hollywood production values when they could cheaply get their fix at home. With box office disappearing, the only sure money in moviemaking came from video rights, which meant an increasing number of films were made with a VCD expressly in mind?not a formula for cinematic greatness. "Videos are like drugs to us," says Peter Chan, a director and head...