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Mandating course evaluations and their publication benefits students by improving professors’ teaching and by providing more information about a course before enrolling. But refusing CUE evaluations hurts teaching fellows (TFs) as well as their future students. The 60-odd professors’ rejection of CUE surveys left more than 230 TFs without the formal student evaluations that would help these aspiring academics develop their teaching careers. If Harvard is to expect, as we firmly believe it should, its tenure-track faculty to be as proficient in the classroom as they are in the library or the laboratory...
...keep holy on the black Sabbath if every time we cast a tornado spell in Mather courtyard, Peter gets Ad boarded? We knew Cambridge was close to Salem, but we had no idea how deep the bigotry ran. You can’t imagine how demeaning it is when TFs ask us to put away our wands while our Sikh classmates can run wild with their ceremonial scimitars. Our point is, there is too much injustice in your everyday life to be bothered by things like global warming. How can we be thinking about our children’s lives...
You’re a Harvard rebel. You don’t swipe your I.D. at mealtime. You rarely attend lecture. You badmouth your TFs daily, and your blue recycling bin is used solely for stashing empty bottles of Malibu. But if you really want to flout the rules and get yourself a little privacy in your cramped Sophomore walk-through, let FM be your guide to building an illicit but-oh-so-helpful common room partition...
...brain cells as long as you don’t start them Thursday night at 11 PM. The labs aren’t always relevant to the course, but they’re easy points. If you’re having trouble with the work, the capable TFs are happy to assist you, but may be a little bewildered by some portions of the course they haven’t had time to study. The profs, however, are usually happy to help you out during office hours with everything from the most rote questions to broader applications of course material...
...building offers two roomy lecture halls (usually reserved for cores and graduate classes) and a labyrinth of cramped classrooms in which you will get to know your professors and fellow concentrators a bit too well. On a nice day and with enough whining, most professors and TFs can be persuaded to hold class outside WJH in the courtyard. Between classes, students often take advantage of the cafeteria on the second floor, the comfortable library couches for a nap, or the chance to guinea pig themselves in psych experiments for petty cash. Most of the professors have been around...