Word: topicalism
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...contemplating what to write for my final column, thinking back over the last four years of news covered by The Crimson, a gift topic fell into my lap in the form of the Senior Survey. In exchange for commencement tickets (a wisely-chosen barter on the part of the College), all seniors must fill out an eight-part multiple choice and free-response survey on aspects of life at Harvard. In an e-mail sent to the Class of 2000, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 directed us to a website for easy responding and pointed out that...
...Though there is room in the free response questions which follow to discuss our most positive and most disappointing academic experiences at the College, it is more likely that those answers will focus on a specific course and won't address the Core as a whole, a topic which warrants more extensive and specific questioning...
...dozen lobbyists stopped by to drop off business cards and offer ideas for future plot lines that favor their clients. The staff of Michigan Representative John Conyers helpfully sent along 200 pages of material on the issue of paying reparations to black Americans as compensation for slavery--a topic that figured in an earlier episode...
...girls got frustrated on all the sites whenever they'd click on a broad topic, like sports, and find nothing they were interested in. Then there were the lengthy sections on obscure topics, like Alloy's strangely elaborate list of magical spells, which got the big thumbs-down. "That is so stupid," said Alexis, 16, to nods all around. And they didn't like anything that slows you down, like the mandatory registration on Kibu or the jumbled look of Gurl, which made the site feel like "everything is cluttered and thrown together," said Rabiyah...
Despite this very real threat during the teen years, many families are loath to discuss the topic with their kids. "There's this notion about depression, and certainly about suicide, that if you ask or mention the subject, you're going to make it happen," says Jamison. Quite the contrary, she says; talking with a son or daughter about dark feelings will help assuage the sense of hopelessness the child may have...