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...College’s new policy on social clubs reveals a fundamental disconnect between the intent of the administration and its ability to implement the policy behind the philosophy it supports. This past fall, two Harvard kids almost drank themselves to death—literally—at events held by student groups. Surely this is symptomatic of a larger ill in the culture of drinking at Harvard: Kids here follow the “work hard, play hard” motto with an intensity that isn’t surprising for a student body not exactly known...
...abundantly on display during her six years as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Yet Massachusetts Hall is a far cry from Fay House. The challenges Faust faces as president—from laying the groundwork for a campus in Allston to uniting a balkanized university to implementing an uninspiring new curriculum—are of an entirely different nature and order of magnitude from anything she has previously faced. How she handles those challenges, how she defines her own role, and what she prioritizes will shape Harvard for years to come.Harvard is at a crossroads. After years...
...response to the suicide of a first-year Medical School student in 2000, the Student Health Coordinating Board—an entity established just one year prior to implement the recommendations of a mental health report issued by the Provost’s office—organized a committee to draft a Crisis Response Manual. The manual, last updated in 2005, provides information on how to prepare for, respond to, and deal with the repercussions of crises including student injury or death...
...think the most important lesson I’ve learned at Harvard is one that I’ve only recently tried to recognize and implement. Being “busy” carries with it several bad connotations. First and foremost is the implied lack of agency: When I feel “busy” it comes with the feeling that things are happening to me, not that I am causing things to happen. Secondly, being “busy” makes for a chaotic lifestyle, as the crazy hair and stressed-out expression that I unwittingly...
...Though Bok was initially reticent to implement such a drastic change in his interim position, admissions dean William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, with the help of Vice President for Policy A. Clayton Spencer, convinced him of its benefits...