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Teachers may not be the biggest fans of students?? cell phones, but one Harvard economics professor has embraced them as a possible incentive rather than a distraction. At a lecture on Oct. 10, Professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. told students in Economics 1816 “Race in America” about a plan he is working on that would reward high-performing public school students with cell phones and cell phone minutes, according to multiple students in the class who asked not to be named because Fryer stressed the plan’s confidentiality to them...
...abjure any attraction to filthy lucre. Surely, earning a pay check, in whichever way one chooses to do so, comes with its attendant drudgery: It is the fate of man to earn his keep by toil. Perhaps that is why activism comes so effortlessly to Harvard students??they acutely realize the effort of employment and the comparative ease of stroking one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square...
...surely also incumbent upon Expos to hire from a wider variety of academic fields. Preceptors would be able to draw from one another’s disciplinary knowledge and make the program even more responsive to our students?? wide-ranging interests and to professors’ expectations of writing in fields that are not currently represented in our faculty appointments...
...Social Clubs, no student was involved in the process. No student is involved in setting budgetary priorities of the University or the Allston expansion. Students can voice concerns through student-faculty committees, such as the Committees on House Life and Undergraduate Education–composed of administrators, faculty, and students??but the recommendations made by these joint committees are purely advisory...
...looking up the lyrics of the hip-hop song that had supposedly started the fight (“Knuck If You Buck,” by Crime Mob). One of my blockmates even reported that her Spanish class had excitedly discussed the fight at “the black students?? party.” I’ve heard so many condemnations of the fight and explanations for the police response that night, all of them valid, all of them placing the blame somewhere different. I am far more intrigued, however, by the different responses of my schoolmates...