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Harvard students often justifiably complain that our lives are overly stressful. The shift of Fall semester exams from January to December—a move that was favored by our peers by a two to one margin in a free-response online Undergraduate Council survey of more than 100 students carried out earlier this year—would provide a welcome stress-free block in the middle of the year. Especially as our school has become increasingly national and international, the importance of making the sometimes-long journey home with no accompanying work or conflicting commitments has increased...
...BusinessWeek suggested that HBS—which has fallen in the student satisfaction segment of the survey in recent years—is driven by less-principled motives...
Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, also announced this month that it would not give BusinessWeek access to its students for the survey, though Lampe said HBS and Wharton reached their decisions independently...
...Kidd says. After watching the formation of groups like harvardparties.com and the UC’s Concert Commission, Kidd says she realized the demand for more social alternatives was salient. And perhaps more important, the upcoming move to Allston has provided a chance to think toward the future. A survey sent to all undergraduates asks detailed questions about social habits, underscoring the University’s recent interest in the subject...
...administration has recently tried to make amends. Two student representatives were promptly added to the committee once the oversight was pointed out, and last month—at the urging of those representatives—Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby invited students to participate in an online survey which attempts to gauge what students might want out of an Allston campus. We are pleased with the new approach; Kirby finally appears to understand that asking for student input instead of presuming to know what students want is a far more diplomatic tact. Still, a fundamental question was missing...