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Last semester's Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice" granted its teaching fellows a great deal of power-in fact, too much power. in addition to steering section discussions and setting paper guidelines, each section leader was given the authority to determine his own method of grading first-year students. While some section leaders were willing to bend over backward to help the new students, others graded first-years as stringently as seniors. And though both options have merit, this inconsistency across sections of the same class should cease. First-year grading should...
Other teaching fellows use the "tough love" approach towards first-years, acknowledging their lack of educational experience but hoping that lower grades will motivate the students to work harder and rise to the level of older students in the section. But even if these teaching fellows opt to neglect class status in their grading policies, they could still provide first-years with extra help in the form of additional review sessions or additional essay critiques-even additional office hours. Not only could this level the playing field between those of different high school backgrounds but also between first-years...
...renovations are expected to take betweenthree and four weeks per section, with theexception of D-level, whose extensive renovationswill begin the project with three to four monthsof work...
...Guard having lunch in the Garage. I asked him point-blank how much he made an hour. He said, "I'm a sergeant so I make a little more than most guards, $8.40." I then asked how he could live on $8.40 an hour. He responded, "I'm on Section 8 so I don't have to worry about rent...
Well, Harvard, I'm not on Section 8, neither do I get food stamps, but my rent has gone up $125 a month since my last raise, which was May of 1995, for $0.15 an hour. The cost of food has gone up. Health insurance for my wife and daughter has gone up and parking has gone up. I have been a member of the Harvard community for over 10 years. For eight of those years I have called the Kennedy School home and the members of the Kennedy School, family. I read the article about the guards...