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...contraceptives is surprisingly low (there are just 10.4 million users in the U.S.) given that the pill provides both the convenience of managing menstruation and the security of control over pregnancy. Spreading oral contraceptive use would increase women’s physical and mental autonomy over pregnancy, and probably result in fewer abortions. So unless you think all contraception is immoral, encouraging pill use is a positive goal...
...effects—nausea, headaches, slight weight gain and, with lifetime use, delayed menopause—are serious enough to warrant a prescription. Nor is there any real chance of abuse or drug extraction: An overdose of ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel (two common pill ingredients) is more likely to result in vomiting than any kind of high...
...SCCP), the body responsible for the Core’s original introduction and ongoing administration, has become a bureaucratic roadblock, as demonstrated by its repeated refusal to grant Core exemptions to students who have taken departmental courses equivalent to—or harder than—Core classes. The result has been that adherence to bizarre rules, such as the stipulation that Core classes must have a midterm and a final, has taken priority over a class’s relevance and quality. The prestige and educational value that the Core was supposed to guarantee has been forgotten, and undergraduate...
...When my students asked for copies of my lecture notes, I gladly obliged. The next year, I assigned the same textbook and handed out the complete set of notes on the first day of class. The dismaying result: a handful of students complained that I was lecturing straight from my lecture notes! I was outraged, but the students were foreshadowing a conclusion I would only reach many years later: education is not the verbal presentation of information that is readily available in other forms...
...Even those golden children who sail through Harvard as they’ve sailed through high school fail, in a sense. They’ve failed to experience failure, and their education is impoverished as a result. I’ve learned, sometimes painfully, to accept that it’s not possible to achieve everything and that only when we risk failure, are great gains possible...