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...proposed reform would not be difficult to achieve, and should be implemented as quickly as possible. Ideally, Houses would adopt these changes this year, as Houses cannot notify prospective tutors before Feb. 28. But even if this is not feasible, Houses should strive next year to work more collaboratively in the tutor selection process. Certainly, the tutor system is not the be all and end all of academic advising. Many other changes need to take place such as reviving a largely defunct student advisory system, where upperclassmen would offer recommendations to fellow students—a move that administrators...
...other pre-professional business school. Douthat has missed the point of a liberal arts education. The classes should not be tailored to meet the pre-professional needs of the students. Our classes must set the standard—a high standard of academic enquiry—and students must strive to meet...
...other 20 Sara(h)s there.” Indeed, it is easy to become frustrated when something so important as a name ceases to be self-defining for a person. At Harvard, Sara(h) does not mean me. It means all of us, and we strive to find different ways to make ourselves unique. Some, like my roommate and I, adopt nicknames. Some start to go by their middle names or even take on an entirely new first name. Most start off being known by region or dorm, although in the system is not without glitches (read...
Parents are passionate, protective creatures when it comes to their children, as nature designed them to be. Teachers strive to be dispassionate, objective professionals, as their training requires them to be. Throw in all the suspicions born of class and race and personal experience, a culture that praises teachers freely but pays them poorly, a generation taught to question authority and a political climate that argues for holding schools ever more accountable for how kids perform, and it is a miracle that parents and teachers get along as well as they do. "There's more parent involvement that's good...
...parents may still be alive but were separated from their children during the chaos of the flood. "For every story about an orphan," says Paul Deveril, a UNICEF project officer in India, "there's also a story about a parent searching for their child." Then, too, child-welfare experts strive to place orphans in new homes within their extended families and communities. "The children have been through a massive shock," says Christiane Sebenne of Enfance et Familles d'Adoption, a French agency. "We shouldn't make life even harder by uprooting them...