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...they did not understand how the current Ad Board handles sexual assault, and 56 percent said that the board handles cases poorly. These negative perceptions, while arguably justified, have only been exacerbated by the secrecy with which Harvard masks it proceedings. The institution of the “corroboration rule??—which remained poorly defined for months after its proposal—further eroded students’ belief in Ad Board transparency. The University must be more forthcoming with information about sexual assault on campus. While protecting confidentiality, UHS must release the number of sexual violence...
...focus on the “plus” in “scholarship plus” subtracts from the number of slots available to people writing in academic fields without commercial possibilities. And aspiring scholars frequently confront an informal “two-book” rule??to be considered for a tenured humanities position at a top university, many departments expect that a candidate have two books published and favorably reviewed. “University presses play a crucial role in the whole process by which people get tenure,” says Cogan University Professor...
...riotous ferment that is daily life in Boston, the local government wants to add another onerous rule??an unfair municipal regulation. The Boston City Council is considering a resolution calling for universities to withhold degrees from students who do not pay their parking tickets. This rule is dubious in its conception and wrong-headed in its approach...
...problem sets of the requisite length, a very respectable grade is a near-certainty. In this way hard-working students are rewarded, and those who are unwilling to put in the same levels of effort as their peers are duly penalized. Of course there are exceptions to the rule??but that is the underlying philosophy behind continuous assessment. Attendance and attentiveness are at a premium; idleness is the ultimate crime...
...early 20th-century Anatevka, a small town in the Russian Pale—the region where many Jews were confined under Russian czarist rule??Fiddler tells the story of Tevye the milkman and his five daughters. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book by Joseph Stein, the 1960s musical is based on a story by writer Sholom Aleichem...