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Teaching fellow performance has joined eating concerns, sexual health questions, and peer support networks in the realm of Harvard student hotlines. A new e-mail domain allowing student feedback on TF performance went live at 11:59 last night, after being arranged and approved by the Undergraduate Council (UC). Students who want to relay concerns—or compliments—about particular TFs can now send an e-mail to TF@hcs.harvard.edu and have their comments addressed confidentially and promptly, according to a bill unanimously passed by the UC yesterday. Crucial to the implementation of “The Teaching...
Harvard has a new tactic to combat college drinking—it’s called peer pressure. The brand new Office for Alcohol and Other Drug Services (AODS) has championed a “social norms” approach to alcohol abuse, theorizing that since “college students tend to grossly overestimate the number of their peers who engage in high-risk alcohol consumption,” providing data will correct this misconception and make people think twice before drinking. Great, except that if anyone stops and thinks twice at these numbers, it becomes abundantly clear that...
...Peer through the small window of one of Apollo Diamond's canister-like reactors, and it might seem as if you're staring at something from out of this world. The inside of the cramped chamber is bathed in a magenta glow more befitting a Los Angeles nightclub than a science lab. Evenly arrayed on a small plate at the center of this colorful haze are what looks like 16 lozenges burning with an even deeper pink...
...o.e.c.d. convention specifically states that neither national economic interests nor foreign-relations priorities should influence bribery investigations. If Britain gets away with shrugging off the convention's terms, it's hard to see what will be left of it. The convention has no mechanism for sanctioning governments other than peer pressure, and activists like Transparency International's Labelle fear "national security" may become an unofficial but accepted exemption. At the March meeting, British officials will once again be grilled on the case."We have to think through some difficult issues," says Pieth, the working group's chairman. No kidding...
According to Courtney M. Peterson, a Lowell House wellness tutor, peer involvement will be beneficial to the student body...