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...professor’s scholarship—that is not the goal of course evaluations—students must be the primary judges of a professor’s teaching abilities. One does not need a doctorate to determine whether a professor is well-organized, whether she can present a coherent, original lecture, or whether, in the end, she inspires or bores a classroom of students...
...Black Table, a subset of the BSA. According to BSA leadership, the Black Card asserts the BSA’s rising professionalism.“We’re leaders in the black community; just by being at Harvard, there are high expectations, and we have to try and present a comprehensive image,” says Sarah Lockridge-Steckel ’09, the alumni representative and public relations chair of the organization. “We want to show that we can go above and beyond.”Zukerman Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters understands...
Acknowledging the present state of the globe forces the realization that even if every “first world” family were to adopt an underprivileged baby, the children of the Global South would still not be saved. There are too many of them in need. The real solution—and here the moral and the economic solutions happily coincide—is to give these children a dignified way to live in their own countries and homes. If well-meaning families truly love these children enough to give them a better life, then they should work...
...organic food are quick to point out that advances in chemical fertilizers and pesticides are responsible for our country’s bounteous food supply. Yet a 33-fold increase in pesticide use since 1945 has not yielded a commensurate increase in food production. Rather, chemical advances have lowered present costs for farmers and saddled society with a burdensome environmental debt. Much of U.S. agriculture could be done organically at the same levels of output. Organic corn and soybean yields per acre in Iowa, according to Duffy, are even greater than conventional ones...
...education report has relegated religion to the current events forum to be examined solely in the areas where it has overlap with society. In no way will students be able to acquire a deeper understanding of religion, knowledge that would help students develop a wide set of skills not present in any other field of study. In Harvard’s first attempt to mandate religion since wood stoves heated Mass. Hall, religion is being labeled as a secondary institution, only worthy of consideration when it stands at odds to societal development. This view of “current events...