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...talk of student-faculty interaction at Harvard, those exchanges are often hard to come by. Students in fields such as government or economics rarely enjoy meaningful exchanges with their professors, or, if they do, have to be combatively assertive in securing the opportunity. And forget about going outside the department: For those not in a special concentration such as social studies or history and literature, interdisciplinary or even integrative approaches to the focus of our academic inquiry are often all too rare. The study of Europe is particularly hard-hit by both of these problems. European issues—philosophy...
...cases, has helped create ties for future working relationships. Zackheim says he enjoys becoming part of a new cast and crew when he works towards his tech requirement. “It’s more a chance for the people in the limited world of Harvard theater to interact and co-mingle with each other,” he says...
...appreciate the court’s ruling,” Iuliano wrote. “The University takes seriously its responsibility to balance the public’s interest in matters of public safety with the privacy interests of students and others in the Harvard community who regularly interact with the Harvard University Police Department...
...such thinker is John Norvell, a lecturer on Anthropology who teachers Anthropology 199: Life On-Line: Culture, Technology and Democracy. Norvell defines community as simply “any place where humans interact.” In this sense, Thefacebook.com represents an online community—in addition to the nail-biting process of requesting new friends, the website has features that allow you to poke and send messages to friends already on your list. It practically eliminates the need for real interaction...
Given the frequency of student complaints that professors don’t interact enough with students, the first lectures of shopping period—before the grind of getting through the material—provide that rare glimpse into professors as humans. In talking more informally about course expectations, going through the syllabus and setting up expectations, faculty naturally reveal far more about themselves as people than they will in the average lecture halfway through the semester. Students’ academic experience improves when they realize that the bespectacled figure lecturing to them is, remarkably enough, human...