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...teaching fellows but not themselves. A culture of feedback and improvement cannot be established if faculty see themselves as above evaluation. The Faculty’s recalcitrance also hurts students, who cannot be expected to take their evaluations seriously if professors do not respond to suggestions for improvement and publish their evaluations in the Q Guide. While the new Q is a step in the right direction, it cannot be considered the end of reform. The Q will only be what it aspires to be if more meaningful changes are enacted to encourage and enforce student and faculty participation...
...member of a final club 3) River Rat – one who lives in a River House 4) The Dump – Dunster House 5) A Poonster – a member of a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine 6) SOS – shuttle-ride of shame home from the Quad 7) Quadling – someone who lives in the Quad 8) The ’Berg – where freshman find their missing 15 pounds 9) Ho-worthy – whatchu gonna...
Consider the perspective of non-tenured faculty or salaried administrators: As employees of the University, it seems unlikely that they would advocate for radical change, and even less plausible that they would publish editorials about their employer’s shortcomings. For tenured faculty, time is a scarce commodity, and many would rather do research in their respective fields than advocate for policies or institutional change that may never come. Too many members of our university community are not empowered to push for change or illuminate Harvard’s flaws because they serve only in a nominal or advisory...
...This portrait of the party's Machiavellian backroom politics runs sharply counter to China's government-sanctioned mythology, and Gao's book has already been controversial in his homeland. Chinese officials pressured him not to publish, he says, and even made veiled threats toward his family still living in China. The Chinese version, published in 2003, was banned - although it became a black-market best seller. Gao is unsurprised by the fuss. "After Tiananmen, the government lost power," he says. "Zhou is now the only party leader who the people respect and love. If his reputation is destroyed, there will...
...none of the mainstream media based in the U.K. or with British assets dares to publish the alleged victim's name. To identify him or her or to give any further details that could lead to his or her identification would be in contempt of a court order obtained by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the body responsible for prosecuting criminal cases investigated by the police in England and Wales. "It's quite normal in cases of blackmail to ask for a Section 11 order [under the 1981 Contempt of Court Act] to protect the identity of the person...