Word: supportable
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...criticism, however, is not primarily institutional. Harvard can and must do better, and not just over the next few weeks. The flawed support network is merely a symptom of a deeper attitudinal problem that both we and the university carry...
...troubling tendency for the University indiscriminately to tell depressed students to "take time off" and that they are not fit as students. "They see time off as the fix to everything," says a junior who has survived an attempt. "Time off" deprives depressed students both of the already tenuous support system of friends and services that they have here and the incentive to admit to personal problems...
Asked about her support of the politicallegislation, Redmond said she felt it belonged onthe docket...
...free marketeer might argue that university student groups should receive no subsidies whatsoever and instead let students vote with their feet on which activities they believe most enrich their college experience. Those students who want to try Brazilian dance, for instance, ought to shell out $30 dollars each to support a program. If a student wants to read the Independent or Perspective, she should pay a quarter for a copy from a vending machine. If fewer people dance or read campus publication, market advocates say, that's just fine...
Many at Harvard would bristle at such a suggestion though, because we believe that universities are special places, where new, tentative, and outrageous ideas and activities should be given additional support and cultivation. As a matter of fact, it seems that small, startup projects are the greatest beneficiaries of the Undergraduate Council's grants process. Most students probably wouldn't want to eliminate their termbill activities fee and replace it with a market system because we believe that the dynamism of student life--even if it is some what artificial--significantly enriches our experience, and we seem to think that...