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Leaders of Harvard’s schools say that little has come of the report??€™s recommendations...
...ranging from emotional distress, due to fear of harassment, to dehydration and kidney failure. Opening all 24 single-occupancy bathrooms to both sexes will greatly diminish the threat of these problems. Following the example of Currier House—which promptly relabeled its four single-stall bathrooms following the report??€™s release—we urge the immediate implementation of the BGLTSA’s recommendations...
...bright side, if adopted, the report??€™s solid recommendations, such as the suggested expansion of the junior seminar program, will do something to better undergraduate teaching. Junior seminars are a good way of increasing student-faculty interaction and encouraging the type of classroom experience that undergraduates ought to expect at Harvard. There is no reason why students at Harvard must necessarily be denied the kind of faculty interaction that students at small liberal arts colleges get simply because they chose to attend a research university. Other laudable proposals include requiring that all tutorial programs be headed...
...while fellowships might inspire the best TFs to work harder, it is hard to imagine the unlikely prospect of a fellowship transforming indifferent TFs into motivated ones. Moreover, the type of generalized (read: fluffy) pedagogical training TFs are likely to receive as a result of the report??€™s suggested reforms will at best address only a small part of the of TF problem. We are particularly frustrated that the report did not do more to address the TF issue since so much of the learning Harvard undergraduates do is expected to happen in section...
Finally, the report??€™s recommendation to make Freshman Seminars mandatory is unnecessary. While the program is excellent on the whole, and it could surely benefit from expansion, making Freshman Seminars mandatory will only reduce the quality of the seminars and the flexibility of first-years’ schedules. The quality of a seminar is entirely dependent on the enthusiasm of the students and the professor. Making Freshman Seminars mandatory would involve engaging faculty who are less eager to teach a Freshman Seminar and students who are less likely to get into one that they’re interested...