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...Harvard. And, several months ago, as I read Dean Lewis's insistence that the College bears no responsibility for the non-academic fulfillment of its students in The Crimson's report "Are Harvard Student's Happy?", I figured out why. For the Dean of the College to shirk responsibility for undergraduates' quality of life is little short of negligent, especially as he prepares to move forward without a dean of students. Preparing us for the community of educated men and women includes preparing us to be decent to each other...
Activists who have gone before us, at moments like Stonewall in 1969, or in groups like ACT UP in the '80s, have left on us--the political, economic and intellectual elite--the burden of future progress. We shirk that burden if we choose to live anonymously or apathetically. Yet it is not we who will suffer but those who are younger, less educated, less wealthy--those who are not inoculated from stigma and violence with a Harvard diploma...
...boldness of the grad students pits them against some of the professors they work for, who warn that collective bargaining will defile teacher-student relationships. Such high-minded claims are undercut by campus realities: many profs shirk face-to-face, small-group instruction and dump teaching responsibilities onto graduate students. Last month the Supreme Court upheld an Ohio law that prescribes a minimum number of hours that professors at state universities must devote to teaching. Says U.C. Berkeley grad-student activist Ricardo Ochoa: "We do about 60% of the contact with undergraduates. Our working conditions are the undergraduates' learning conditions...
...think politics has to do with just about everything," Campos said. "You cannot shirk your political responsibility by making politics something you do on the side...
...population. The capitalist business system that brought this about is our art form. It is no surprise then that some of the most talented and motivated young people today are eager to test their mettle, to step forward along the path that will push them furthest towards excellence. Why shirk these bigger challenges, why dodge our weightiest responsibilities, why go the toothpick route...