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Resident tutors serve an impressive variety of functions in the House. They teach House sections and help with those killer problem sets. They share their academic experience and offer career guidance They write recommendation letters They play intramural sports and chaperone dance. And they often become good friends with the students in their House. As Winthrop House Master James Davis puts it, "it's the tutors that make the Harvard House...
...University has the responsibility to take moral positions and stands and encourage its students to. Yet all the University can do is teach its students how to think and take positions on specific ethical issues. The Pi newsletter is not an ethical issue; it is an expression of thought as guaranteed under the Constitution. The University should watch the Pi Eta and all student organizations carefully and not permit any form of actual sexism or sex discrimination. Any actual acts of discrimination should he dealt with swiftly and harshly. In addition, Harvard should cut any and all administrative and financial...
Prayer is a private matter; ethics is not. Schools should teach children moral principles and responsible behavior, not prayers. The community should not be forcing the religious beliefs of some of its members down the throats of others...
...report released this year by their faculty council addresses the issue of improving residential college life. The report recommends an increase in the number of formal courses offered at the colleges, says Frank W.K. Kirk, master of Trumball College. Currently each college offers about six courses a year. "Teaching on the college level is a nice way to integrate the social and academic functions of the college, it also lends a greater sense of identify to each of the colleges," Kirk says, adding that the smaller college courses made it easier to teach innovative subject matters which larger courses often...
...examples of the past have a way of being misapplied to the present. Our experience in Southeast Asia does not teach us never to use force, but rather to employ it carefully. As Walter Mondale points out, "The lesson from Vietnam is not that we should forgo power everywhere at all times." But Gary Hart apparently wants to do just that. By unilaterally withdrawing American military might from Central America, he would foresake the chance for democratic change and endanger our own backyard. Hart's battle is long over: it does not belong in an area so close...