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In the manic scramble of Uniball Deluxe pens, not all is lost. Fun can come when some students resort to antics for attention. Every semester, a handful of students manipulate the classroom into an arena for the entertainment of others. Several Harvard student organizations have maximized their visibility this way...
Most Professors, however, do make a concerted effort to be accessible for their students. Mendelsohn occasionally offers students a chance to chat and dispose of Crimson Cash by having coffee at the Greenhouse with him. Still only a handful out of the hundreds bother to take the opportunity.
"Dangerous" Dana Rosenblatt, the current IBA middleweight champion, floored a group of about 30 Harvard students and a handful of local fans yesterday evening at Hillel with stories about his life as a boxer, his Jewish identity and the problems of the sport today.
Neither do an alarming number of her peers. In contrast to their overburdened counterparts in private and suburban schools, students in Boston's 11 public district high schools give homework such a low priority that many no longer bother to carry a backpack. Frustrated teachers say often only a handful...
"The sport that has done the best job of promoting competition is football," he says. "The worst is baseball, where two-thirds of the teams have no chance at all, and where the same handful of teams dominate post-season play year after year."