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...draw attention” to an argument. Yet in doing so they draw more attention to themselves than to the actual issues. Students at Harvard who are passionate enough about an issue to stage a protest would be more effective if they focused their efforts on the intellectual merit of their arguments. Though inducing others to join a cause through rallies and protests may seem the revolutionary, “cool” thing to do—a throwback to the ’60s—to Harvard students and administrators it seems patronizing. Lectures, debates, discussions, informational...
...reasoning behind the decision to cancel events on Thursday night—that two consecutive nights of College-sponsored partying would be excessively debaucherous—does have some merit, but is ultimately not compelling. It would be almost inconceivable at just about any other university, after all, for administrators to help fund one huge pre-game, and to support two in a single week would be exceptional to say the least. The fact of the matter is, however, that we’re not talking about just any weekend. The Harvard-Yale game comes to Cambridge once every...
...make suggestions about a fellow professor’s teaching. We see no reason why this should not also be the case in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professors who do not wish to submit to such constructive scrutiny probably do not care enough about undergraduate education to merit what should be a prestigious “general education” designation for their classes...
...Hagan said. “I don’t know why I got put in there. I guess it was sort of a feel thing for Coach Murphy. He never promised me anything.”But Pizzotti’s results in 2006 hardly merit a benching in their own right: 126.47 passing efficiency, 904 yards through the air, a mere four interceptions in five starts, and, most notably, zero losses.“It’s definitely a tough spot to be in,” Pizzotti said. “Coach Murphy ha[s] been...
Whatever they've identified, both see merit in thinking about ways to treat the phenomenon. "I don't want to overstate it," says Mondraty, "but I guess in the future it'll be interesting to see if we can develop drugs that will actually reverse this abnormality." For some of his patients Mondraty already prescribes an atypical antipsychotic, olanzapine, to help control the intensity of their self-image delusions and curb their tendency to obsess about food and shape...