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...show up at class with mismatched socks, and the prof can even tell you why. Sociology 150: "The Social Underpinnings of Taste," taught by Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology Stanley Lieberson makes a class out of fashion and pop culture. Enjoy...
...previous department chair; however, the faculty were apparently unable to agree on whether or how such a system should be enacted. Students in the department were well aware that such a proposal had been made and had stalled with the faculty; in fact, Jason Altom (in the note to Prof. Anderson quoted in the article) referred specifically to the QOL proposal as a model for the type of action which should be taken...
Second, while I agree with Prof. Anderson's statement that a department chair doesn't "serve as a judge or jury to reprimand or condemn," I think it is worth asking whether anyone at Harvard does, if not condemn, at least evaluate the performance of its faculty as advisers. Every adviser-student relationship is different, but are there some basic standards Harvard should try to uphold? Department Director Alan Long's description of the chemistry department as "fairly autonomous" is accurate, but autonomy brings with it a measure of accountability, and it should not take a tragic incident such...
...Prof. Anderson said in the article, "A broad emotional base leads to the finest research." Advisers with that type of viewpoint--including my own at Harvard--probably don't encounter many problems with their adviser-student relationships, but does Harvard believe that statement enough to encourage all its faculty to act according to it? KATIE QUEENEY Murray Hill, N.J., Sept. 17, 1998 The writer received a Ph.D. in chemistry in June...
...mostly because of the play's unique structure: twenty-one short scenes, "Simple Techniques for More Effective Communication," among which, out of sequence, are presented four events crucial to the "plot." These are revealed in a separate scene (brilliantly acted by Director Jonno Deily-Swearingen '98, as a Harvard prof) to be "TRYST," "WARNING," "THREAT," and "MURDER"--elements amounting to a predictable techno-thriller badly in need of satire, involving a boy genius (Chuck O'Toole '97), a spy (Paul Monteleoni '01), a democratic revolutionary (Jessica Shapiro '01) and several lunatics...