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...word strikes fear into the hearts of administrators. Yet it seems doubtful that Harvard’s graduate students will ever unionize. Even though graduate study at Harvard hardly resembles the pedagogical ideal, it is not the bottom of the heap, either. Rumor has it that we are paid somewhat better than our peers at many other universities, and a little extra cash can go a long way to quelling discontent. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) administration has made great improvements in the financial packages awarded to incoming students, which also takes some of the edge...
...answer was, to my mind, somewhat surprising. Overwhelmingly, the international students had been lured to Cambridge from across the globe not because of Harvard’s facilities, its faculty or its career-building connections. They had come instead searching for a broad, liberal education of the type that dominates in America but is impossible to find in the restrictive, single subject curricula at Oxford and Cambridge, where most of these students say they might have otherwise enrolled...
Whether the Core has lived up to the challenge of providing that education was somewhat more controversial. Palmer-Amaning, for example, was widely derided for saying that Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” was his favorite class at Harvard. But all seemed to revel in the freedom provided by Harvard’s curriculum. “I love the flexibility of a Harvard undergraduate education,” says Poon, now a psychology concentrator. “I changed concentrations four times...
...director general for security, a man who goes by the name of Dr. Khasraw, hints there may have been more substance to the split between the Islamic groups. Indeed he readily makes concessions for the local militants, suggesting somewhat sympathetically that Komal's logistic support for Ansar's attempted assassination on the Kurdish prime minister earlier this year may have been given without the leadership's knowledge. "They cannot account for individuals," he says. He confirmed government discussions had been underway with Komal, but did not give details...
...heterosexual, male college student, I couldn’t help but feel somewhat insulted by Amy E. Keel’s perspective on the “snow phallus” (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate,” Feb. 24). It was a bit of a childish prank, certainly, but even the young men who constructed it readily admitted that...