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...really gratifying,” she said. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, who was present at the event, said that “Mental Health Awareness Month” was a great opportunity to raise awareness among students. The UC is currently working on calendar reform and improving proctor training for mental health issues, among other proposals. “It’s an issue that affects a lot of students, whether severely or mildly, and students told us that mental health issues resonated with them during the UC election,” Petersen said...
...both students and the institution to have an atmosphere that promotes mental health. I propose three areas of change that, while they certainly don’t resolve the entirety of student mental health issues, would have an immediate and long-term positive impact. A first area of reform is the administration of the academic environment, and specifically the Ad Board. It is a horror for the vulnerable students faced with its inaccessible, administrator-only, bureaucracy that can render dealing with mental health issues a requisite spectacle for mercy rather than a genuine healing experience. A second area of reform...
...long last the time seems ripe for Harvard to reform its archaic calendar, a change that cannot come a year too soon. The roadblocks that have stood in the way of this change in the past—most notably an ongoing curricular review which is finally coming to a conclusion—are being lifted. There is no longer any reason for delay. Harvard is one of a few universities that drag students back to campus after a brief winter break to write term papers and take exams. It’s a cruel system that denies Harvard students...
Conversely, Lieberman does not share enough values with the Democratic Party he claims to represent. In fact, he has been building conservative credentials for years. Not only is he a staunch advocate of U.S. involvement in Iraq, he also wants to reform social security, and he publicly supports President Bush’s free trade agenda...
...addition to the UC calendar reform proposal, members of CUE considered changes to the CUE Course Evaluation Guide. Proposed legislation included offering an incentive for students to fill out evaluations by allowing those who completed evaluations to see their final grades for courses early...