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...This University fires the professors we acclaim. It has institutional policies often in direct opposition to those favored by a vast majority of students. Top administrators rarely, if ever, meet undergraduates. Faculty members in large lecture courses have never met most of the students enrolled in the class. The list goes...
...adjectives used to describe the Houses promote stereotypes and are insufficient to convey the variety of experiences people have in their house. Winthrop residents would probably have preferred "crowded" to any other description of their three-year home by the Charles. But it wasn't on the list. Also, isn't an athlete likely to describe his House as "athletic," or an artist as "artistic," no matter what other people think? Finally, who knows whether a certain House is "civilized" or "distinctive" or "stimulating"? I don't, and so I didn't check those descriptions...
...examine "college life"? There are questions ad nauseum about house life, house community, house committees and house masters. But if no substantial house life actually exists, then the survey's questions won't be worth a farthing. In the survey, I put my extracurriculars at the top of my list of "meaningful" Harvard experiences...
...Humphrey tradition, Jackson has promised Democratic voters a laundry list of expensive new domestic programs, from housing to education. The cost of his comprehensive health-care program alone would be near prohibitive even without the deficit problem. Moreover, he has been unable to resist the siren song of free-lunch economics. His centerpiece proposal is to tap $60 billion in public pension funds to finance low-income housing and public works programs. The money would be taken out of stocks and bonds and invested where it could do the most good. Simple in theory, but what about the retirees...
Mirror image. George Bush settled down with his aides last week for a leisurely review of his list of vice-presidential prospects, which included such usual suspects as Governors George Deukmejian and Tom Kean. Then Bush surprised his advisers with an unexpected addition to the roster: Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson. The homespun Simpson is well liked by his peers and above all loyal, an attribute that Bush has stated is his most important criterion...