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...After watching Dave’s reading, after watching him kick his coat against the lectern, carve out a pair of breasts in the air with his hands, pick at a piece of tape on the stand at least once every five minutes for the duration of the reading??I came away feeling like I knew the guy much more than the other authors I’ve seen this fall,” said Ryan M. Riley...
Blame it on her course selection, some pro-“reading?? period proponents may say. But hoards of Dartboard’s comrades with course selections ranging from the embarrassingly non-demanding to the gruelingly severe are facing the same problems. Some have finals mid-reading period. Others have a multitude of papers due reaching triple digit levels in page-count. Still others have a required class, lab or section. Sadly all the preparation, typing and attendance amounts to chunks of valuable time wasted on requirement tasks other than studying for final exams. It also makes...
...crisis is a serious one, especially given that I’m headed to law school next year. But do I really want to go to law school this fall? Do I really want to waste my time with three more years of “reading?? and “writing” just to earn the “opportunity” to toil away for another 40 years at some “firm”? Are rhetorical questions and excessive quotation marks really going to be effective in conveying my indecision...
Certainly there are ways to improve the Harvard education without forcing students to spend more time doing it—better taught sections, less busywork and fewer “I’m checking to see if you did the reading?? response papers are examples. But for students with already-heavy course loads and full schedules, an increase in the amount of time spent on work of an academic nature inherently requires a shift in time away from other activities—activities that are just as valuable and are already under-represented at the College...
...event, part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard’s “Black Writers Reading?? series, featured poet and Yale associate professor Elizabeth Alexander and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks—a 2001 MacArthur Grant recipient who last year became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize...