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...heroes, such as ourselves. We heroically detained rap mega-sensation Fabolous and managed to prevent him from attending Eleganza. Why, you ask? We are not at liberty to say, except for the fact that he had been infected with Swine Flu by the perverted designs of Registrar Barry S. Kane, who plotted to use the rapper’s magnetic persona and popular lyrics to give all four of Harvard’s hot girls a deadly disease.But this issue is all about the professors. We’d like to take a moment and recognize some of our favorites...
Last week, Registrar Barry S. Kane announced that students who complete their Q evaluations online will be able to access their final grades immediately after the end of the examination period instead of having to wait the usual 10 days. The end-of-semester evaluations, which are mandatory for all but the smallest seminar courses, are an important part of both teaching and learning here at the College, and it is essential that students fill them out. Therefore, we applaud the Registrar for implementing this new system and hope that it is an efficient and effective means of incentivizing...
Time flies, doesn't it? A mere hour ago, the distinguished Barry S. Kane, FAS Registrar extraordinaire, sent his first email of the semester. The implications, of course, are clear: the semester is over, another year has passed, and you better fill out your Q Guide or prepare to get bumrushed, KGB-style...
Well, the administration has yet to take those sorts of drastic measures to raise the 74% (pretty impressive) response rate. But, if you happen to have a have a from: Barry Kane, to: trash email filter, you might want to perk up. The Registrar has finally learned the power of incentives...
However, has the Registrar deeply considered the ramifications of this? On margin, those extra 26% who refuse to fill out the Q are the hardest of hard core holdouts. They set up Barry Kane filters, they refuse the appeals of such campus luminaries as Matt L. Sundquist '09, Sangu J. Delle '10, and Clifton G. Dawson '07, and don't even care enough for their future brethren to lower that fanatic-inflated overall rating on that small seminar class. These free-riders just refused to care enough...until...