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...really broke [the] momentum” of response rates and contributed to their sluggish start. Administrators and faculty sent e-mail reminders to students in hopes of making course evaluation “part of the culture” at Harvard, Kane said. He also said there was a spike in response rates in the final days that evaluations were open. To encourage greater participation in evaluations, Kane said he supports shifting to a Yale-style evaluation process, where students cannot view course grades until they have completed evaluations, either by offering feedback or choosing an opt-out feature...
Corruption in politics is, of course, as old as politics itself. So the current spike in prosecutions does raise a rather obvious question that FBI criminal chief Swecker is happy to answer. "I don't think there is more corruption," he says. But with more agents on the job, "we're just trained better and look more to find...
...Cabot students became ill with a 24-hour stomach virus that spread rapidly amongst residents earlier this week. Harvard University Health Services (UHS) saw roughly 15 Cabot students suffering from gastroenteritis between late Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, according to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal. This represents a spike in occurrences, said Rosenthal, who added that UHS generally sees between six and eight cases of gastroenteritis per week in the winter. The increase and concentrated area of cases suggest that the virus was likely “communally transmitted, or came from one common source” within the House...
...families and carrying a burden. Our message should not be that one sex is more sensitive than the other. We must lead by example, not meaningless rhetoric. Erol Palantekin Dublin, Ohio, U.S. The Solar Solution Your story on the French nuclear-energy industry said that because of the recent spike in oil prices and environmental concerns about fossil-fuel emissions, nuclear power is looking attractive again [Nov. 14]. But the sun is also a proven source of energy, and the technology for tapping into solar power is available. In one of the simplest of several variations, an array of mirrors...
...services such as Apple’s iTunes bring purchaseable music video content to computers and portable devices, and unprecedented attention is focused on the work auteur video directors such as Spike Jonze, the art form is well on its way to legitimization. In a tradition that will carry over to the next Music Editor of the Harvard Crimson, Eric L. Fritz ’08, we are now identifying the directors of the videos we cover, with the aim of promoting innovative work in the format...