Word: topicalism
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...there’s not that parallel response or dialogue.”But silence wasn’t exactly the case last fall, when rumors bloomed throughout the Yard about the possibility of sexual misconduct in a freshman dorm. “It’s a voyeuristic topic, people want the details,” Homaifar said. “It’s like when people slow down in a car accident.”Balancing what she saw as a need for meaningful dialogue with sensitivity was one of her foremost concerns...
...headline describes schools and lenders playing footsie over federal student loans. In an especially twinge-inducing bit of irony, at the same time that Columbia University is trying to help make higher education more accessible to low-income students--it's set to host a conference that addresses the topic this month--word broke that a financial-aid officer at the school, as well as at least two counterparts at other colleges, allegedly owned stock in the parent company of a lender they had been recommending to students. The officials were placed on leave pending internal investigations. Meanwhile, financial...
...time if it’s less-then-perfect. Others talk about spending so much time agonizing over some non-critical detail that they can’t move on to other important tasks, or they miss out on the opportunity to think deeply about the topic. Perfectionism here interferes both with meaningful learning and with successfully accomplishing one’s goals.Some students tell me that they are driven to succeed, but there is a distinction between having drive and being driven. Driven, perfectionistic students can be especially vulnerable to academic and personal difficulties such as writer?...
...talk of personable clinicians and the purpose of the tutor system, the real ambassadors are students. When concerned about a friend, we should encourage him or her to talk to someone. And when the topic of Mental Health Services (or Room 13, the BSC, OSAPR, etc.) comes up, we should not just recount the juicy details of what (might have) happened to our roommate’s boyfriend’s teammates’s lab partner. Instead, we might offer that many people (say, eight people in every twenty person section) use them, and most find them helpful...
...book on American political transformations in the works, Skocpol said that her scholarship isn’t yet complete. “My philosophy is to tackle problems that matter in the real world,” Skocpol said. “My thing is to move from one topic to another, and I think I will continue to do that in the future...