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...committees, especially given their direct relevance to student life. “I think going forward we need to make our message very clear that student involvement is necessary,” Holoshitz said. Members of the UC said that they have felt left out of the J-term decision-making process and have passed a “position paper” requesting that the College implement broad requirements for evaluating which students will be permitted to stay on campus during the month-long recess. Smith fielded questions from UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10 about...
...however, choose to work very, very hard. While generally regarded as a positive characteristic, this drive to work also makes us susceptible to tendencies of excess. As a necessary counter to the detrimental effects of an obsessive work ethic, we should welcome the enforced break of an unstructured J-term...
...activities does seem like a frantic attempt to fill time. Students cram the day with meetings and work so that there is not the slightest opportunity for conversation. Summer vacation? Internship. Winter vacation? Fall back on the middle-school tactic and ask for extra work, formally known as the J-term...
...excessive dependence on work is revealed by the worried speculation over how to fill time now that J-term courses are cancelled. Relying on university administration to provide fulfilling experiences suggests a feeble lack of self-sufficiency. Similarly, demands for holiday courses, even if optional and not for credit, hints at an aversion to independent thought. Even if one specifically selects a topic of personal interest, J-term courses would still feed students potential topics to consider and contentions to analyse. Why can’t students use holiday relaxation to come up with their own questions...
...Council’s official question for the Town Hall meeting includes a summary of the Council’s position on the J-term issue along with several questions about the process that will be employed for approval of a student’s stated need to remain on campus in January...