Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...positions. As a result the brain receives conflicting information from the eyes and the inner-ear system, which registers pressure changes and affects balance. Says Dr. Philip Johnson, chief of the medical-research branch of the Johnson Space Center in Houston: "In space you receive a lot of novel input into the brain, which doesn't know how to handle it. We just have to adapt. Some people adapt rapidly, some slowly. It's like going out on a boat with a lot of people. Some will get sick and others will be just fine...
...welcome The Crimson's contributions to our efforts and an hopeful that future articles and editorials will provide further ideas for Council action. We welcome, of course, input from all students. Michael G. Colantuono '83 Chairperson, Undergraduate Council
...gift from the manufacturer, Gary and Ted realized that their main problem would be giving Rob complete mastery over the computer. They tried everything from a breath-controlled switch to a 10-in. rod that Rob held in his mouth. Then they learned of a voice-activated input device that could be taught 40 different commands. Within days, they had talked Scott Instruments of Denton, Texas, into donating one of its $990 voice-entry terminals...
TENURE DECISIONS crop up in almost every debate over the role of student input in University operations. One side contends that student voice in the hiring of professors is imprudent, since undergraduates lack the expertise to gauge scholarly quality. The other camp argues that students have an obvious interest in decisions that will affect their academic futures and that of their institution. It reasons that students do, in fact, have valuable advice to offer on a junior faculty member's skills in the classroom...
Attempts to introduce student input into the Harvard tenure system, accordingly, have gone nowhere, and students can convey their impressions only haphazardly through personal contact. But the quiet implementation last week at Yale of a new teacher-evaluation mechanism may well cut the knot of such endless debate, and could serve as a valuable model...