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...Today, the reason that a practice-based public speaking course isn’t mandatory??or highly sought after by students—might lie in its seeming normality. Let’s face it: Everyone talks. And at Harvard, everyone talks a lot. It’s easy to forget that chatting with your blockmate about her recent breakup—or even discussing India’s political system with a TF during office hours—just isn’t the same as standing in front of an audience, opening your mouth, and getting...
...identified the problem as stemming from Harvard’s institutional priorities and culture and recommended 18 concrete changes to begin to fix the problem. Three of these changes—monetary incentives for top-notch teaching, the creation of a culture of peer evaluation, and making course evaluations mandatory??are particularly important. Beyond those changes, we hope that teaching is made a more important part of tenure decisions, a critical step for changing the culture of teaching at an institution where so much is driven by career advancement. We also hope that FAS considers the possibility...
...service. “The hijab is a huge responsibility,” she says. When she first wore hers at age 13, “people threw stuff at me, people I had known all of my life.” Though the hijab is “mandatory?? according to the rules of Islam, Tellawi explains that many wait until they perfectly comfortable with their faith before proclaiming it so openly. 2:20- The hijab comes up again. “It is an equalizer,” says Ola Aljawhary ’09, Tellawi?...
...maybe it has more to do with our academic loads. As we tick off requirements on our plans of study, some courses are not only getting harder, but less mandatory??and so in many cases, we like our classes more. Or we realize we’ve been slacking off for the last two years and decide that we simply want to be students again. Or at the very least, we’ve probably chosen these classes ourselves, and so have no one but ourselves to blame if they’re abysmal...
Unfortunately, the result of the student referendum—a “yes” to the fee hike, a “no” to make it mandatory??leaves the council vulnerable to that which it feared most from an optional fee. It runs the risk of more students opting-out; a disproportionate number of students may well become free-riders, refusing to pay the fee but still using council services. Though we are skeptical that the council will have the manpower and the know-how to manage its new budget effectively, we still hope...