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...runs support groups for the Newbury branch of Britain's Alzheimer's Society. On cue, the 40 or so Alzheimer's and dementia patients join hands and begin singing in unison - a tentative rendition of Amazing Grace. They remember most of the words and their chorus fills the hall. Montgomery-Smith is certain that the music helps bring her patients' thoughts - ravaged by dissonance and dislocation - into harmony. (Read how secondhand smoke has been linked to dementia...
...humane banker to the manipulative social worker. I have seen one student group whose members were so busy planning their high-minded service events that they left their own bridge housing rooms filthy for nameless custodians to tidy up. Maybe they were in a rush to go petition University Hall to offer custodians higher working wages. I bet those custodians wished that the students had just thrown away their trash instead...
...obsession with service is the wedge it drives between the servers and the served. In one particularly obtuse plan, the Obama administration intends to ensure that at least a quarter of federal work-study funds will support public service programs, “instead of jobs in dining halls and libraries.” That way, low-paid immigrants can take the dining-hall jobs from which the enlightened students have been liberated, and then the students can be paid to write policy papers and hold up posters in solidarity...
...Hopefully, Obama’s policies to rejuvenate the economy are more useful than this, but his message should be closer to Keynes’s than to Hoover’s. Malcolm-Wiley T. Floyd ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Weld Hall...
...Ayse Baybars ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Wigglesworth Hall...