Word: meritable
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...appreciate the staff’s comments that a PSLM member should be included on the committee (Editorial, “Welcome Resolution to Sit-In,” May 9), as I agree that the group has important knowledge and interests that would merit inclusion. However, I take issue with your description of the seizure as “unjustified” and your assertion that “whatever their punishment, PSLM would have no right to complain...
...Option 2: Take a quick breather. Another mysterious product of my faulty brain, this option comes up regularly despite its complete lack of merit. It sounds so reasonable: Stop for 60 seconds, let the muscles rest a bit and catch your breath. Then continue with renewed vigor and resolve, having made the superior tactical choice. The only drawback to this is that it has never worked for anyone, ever, anywhere on earth. Stopping for "just a sec" during an endurance event is comparable to taking a "quick look" at the core of a nuclear reactor just...
...choice, this is rapidly becoming the most likely outcome with each second that I continue to reject actions involving making a decision. Collapse has many of the humiliating fatal flaws involved in Option 2 above, including what seems like the quite real possibility of actually dropping dead. Its only merit is that it does not involve making a decision of any kind. I can just sit back, keep trying to ski up this nasty little hill, and it'll happen all by itself. Risky, embarrassing, potentially deadly - better to come up with a better option before this just happens...
...teachers are not explaining the fundamental theorem of calculus or The Wasteland, they go to desks in their respective department “resource centers.” In these centers, students can extend a discussion that occurred in class, or informally chat about the Yankees or the relative merit of the latest Pokémon movie. This daytime accessibility, combined with heavy extracurricular involvement, enables frequent student-faculty interaction. Harvard could never implement a comparable system, but it could certainly do more than the status...
...representative bodies, the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Graduate Council. These students will go in with a legitimacy as student representatives that no other feasible means of selection would confer. We believe that the strong interest and prior research of many PSLM members merit the inclusion of one of their number on the committee, and we would encourage SAC to keep this in mind as it makes its nominations...