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...cleaning rooms, the secretaries and computer technicians aren't there, the dining halls are closed," Lafer said yesterday. "The TAs [teaching assistants] aren't teaching sections, the graduate students aren't attending classes [and] 150 undergraduate classes have been moved off campus to churches and cinemas...
...order seemed to have won the day. Hordes of freshmen sporting green Dartmouth '94 shirts sat politely in their seats, waiting for the Harvard band to complete its rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard." The Crimson band stepped into its shield formation around its white "VE," "RI" and "TAS" sheets...
...elite to run the country, and in the process, helps willing hands slip into the white gloves of proper society. Harvard takes that special pool of talent, enhances it through association and, upon completion, yields up its Harvard men and women--sealed and stamped with the hallowed VE-RI-TAS...
...mugs display an image of the Earth with "Earth Day--Every Day" surrounding it, and substitute "GA-I-A" in the "VE-RI-TAS" shield in honor of the Greek earth goddess. Upon returning to their dorms, the dedicated first-years wash out their mugs and ready them for the next meal...
Lurie says when T.A.'s take on other jobs, it lowers "the quality of our own studies and of the teaching of undergraduates." This in turn affects Yale's reputation as well as the quality of education available there, according to TAS member Karen Sawislak...