Word: spam
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...past three weeks, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, professors, teaching fellows (TFs), and many of our peers have exhorted us to fill out the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) evaluations of our courses. But apparently the deluge of spam, combined with all the other incentives FAS dreamt up (including course instructors’ promising to don fairy costumes on exam day and extra points on the final) have been insufficient in motivating Harvard students to respond. As of Friday, only 50.55 percent of students had completed the evaluations. Harvard has dangled plenty of carrots...
...responses, some ask their families to cut it out, and others simply ignore the e-mails entirely. I fit into the latter group. When I got tired of reading about “former president Jimmy Carter’s anti-Israel frenzy,” I put a spam filter on messages from my mom. Lo and behold, the e-mails stopped coming...
...politicos across the country ride the wave from last year’s midterm elections to the presidential contest in 2008, politics in this country are going to stay as personal as ever for the foreseeable future. For Josh and me, that means a lot more parental spam...
...than "nominal" damages. All of Mr. Mumma's claims against Omega were dismissed by a federal trial court and a federal court of appeals. Those decisions were not based on mere technicalities, as suggested in the article, but on the fact that our clients fully complied with applicable anti-spam laws...
...skip out on almost an entire section’s worth of material to fill out paper evaluations in class. When the College administration finally put the CUE online in the spring of 2005, however, we traded in a free period for an impressive volume of spam. It’s all well intentioned, of course, but the effort nonetheless comes up short. Though recent CUE reform efforts have focused on tweaking the content of the online forms and on mandating the participation of all teaching fellows, the evaluation process can be much more useful to undergraduates and instructors alike...