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Variable meal plans would also do a great deal to combat the ever-present problem of wasted food. At present, our unlimited meal plan tends to grossly exaggerate the amount of food we actually take; when all your food is free, there’s no reason not to pile twice as much on to your tray as you actually want in order to avoid having to go back for more later, and thus we needlessly throw away tons of perfectly edible food. A meal plan with per-item prices would greatly reduce the incentive to waste food...

Author: By Michael C. Love, | Title: An End to House Dining | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

Idea: Just once, switch the menus of breakfast and dinner. Hash browns and pancakes instead of Moroccan stew and tofu tiles. A pile of scrambled eggs and a hot waffle with coffee and orange juice instead of tasteless chuckwagon corn and a warm glass of Hi-C. All I can say is “Oh, baby...

Author: By K.s.m. Weaver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rant! | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...have lost some grades that I think students would see as meaningful grades, like B-minus and C-plus,” says Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82. “Having a whole pile of grades that mean the same thing and four grades to do all the work—that’s our problem...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Tackles Grade Inflation | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

Since your minds are all preoccupied with dreamy or violent thoughts of Cupid—or you have reached the state of desperation where you are actually contemplating contacting your Datamatch partners—how could I resist the temptation to add yet another rumination to the infinite pile of theories about the peculiar enigma of Harvard love-life...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, DIAGNOSIS | Title: Something to Talk About | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...Having a whole pile of grades that mean the same thing and four grades to do all the work—that’s our problem,” she said...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Not Concerned By Grade Inflation | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

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