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Almost 90 percent of students report that they miss dinner at least once a week, and more than a quarter of students say that they miss dinner at least three times a week, according to a survey of 270 undergraduates conducted by the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC) last year...
...researcher and instructor in physiology at the SPH in the 1970s, described an American health care system with massive investment, but poor results. Olden said that a recent World Health Organization (WHO) study showed that the U.S. devotes more money to health care than any of the 191 countries surveyed. The U.S. spends 14.1 percent of its GDP on health care, while countries like Switzerland, Canada, Germany, and France each spend around 10 percent. At the rate expenditures are increasing, the U.S. will devote 100 percent of its GDP to health care by 2065. Olden observed that General Motors...
...virtual monopoly on the attention of college-bound families that the influential U.S. News rankings hold. The rankings reach 11 million people and are the oldest and most standard “objective” comparative measure of universities. In second and third place come the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Washington Monthly rankings. Have you heard of either? Do college-bound seniors (and their ambitious parents) lustfully chant them in their sleep? The U.S. News rankings rule, and no other consistent, equally respected measure exists...
...restraint. We started making merry not when we were done watching the previous week’s lectures on tape, but when there were no more dishes to wash.Once during the weekend, my cell phone rang. So I turned it off.Last spring, there was much fuss made about a survey by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) that ranked Harvard fifth-from-last among 31 elite schools in terms of student satisfaction. Graduating seniors gave fair Harvard poor reviews for, among other things, the quality of students’ social life. University Hall’s response?...
...section of students based on every imaginable variable—race, class, gender, extracurriculars, financial aid, nationality—have met to discuss what the pub should look like. And that’s just the first step. Starting today, students can go to www.harvardcollegepubnights.com and fill out a survey on their opinions regarding the Pub. Student members already sit on the Pub Commission, the group in charge of exploring the idea of a permanent pub, and now that the exploratory phase is ending, students are mobilizing to join the pub task force, the group that will put the plans...