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...June 20, 2001, when the police reached his modest brick home on Beachcomber Lane in suburban Houston, they found Andrea drenched with bathwater, her flowery blouse and brown leather sandals soaking wet. She had turned on the bathroom faucet to fill the porcelain tub and moved aside the shaggy mat to give herself traction for kneeling on the floor. It took a bit of work for her to chase down the last of the children; toward the end, she had a scuffle in the family room, sliding around on wet tile below a poster that proclaimed the epithets of Christ...
...push for answers, even if they are difficult or unconventional. He or she must centralize authority and fight Harvard’s tendency to factionalize into fiefdoms. What the president cannot—and must not—be is a merely charismatic and charming fundraiser who leaves each tub on its own bottom and lets each faculty do as it pleases. Harvard deserves more from its leader.We also hope that the committee seeks out a president who will understand the central role that undergraduates play on campus and prioritize the College accordingly. We had hoped that the search committee...
...certainly one of the glories of Harvard that individual faculty members have the talent and enthusiasm to teach unique courses, not canned or straight from a textbook. But it does not follow that our teaching should be a solitary pursuit, in the same “each-tub-on-its-own-bottom” style that complicates so much of Harvard’s administration. Rather, professors should think of teaching as a cooperative activity, involving students, graduate assistants, faculty colleagues and administrators. We need more collective responsibility and institutional memory in our teaching. We do not need more individual...
...thing, so we decided to finally do it,” said Sopen B. Shah ’08, CLC chair. “I know a lot of people were excited—I don’t know what it is about it.” The tub of gelatin may have been the event’s selling point, but only a handful of students immersed themselves in the sticky, green substance largely because of its frosty temperature, students say. “We’re waiting for the Jell-O to warm up a little...
...success to its members’ ability to think on the go. “What really separates us from other teams is the ability to improvise and react well to unexpected situations,” he said. The team celebrated their performance by relaxing in the hotel hot tub, drinking, and reminiscing about the months’ preparation, according to Goodkin. “It was the last season for four of us, and this was the perfect way to end our mock trial careers,” Goodkin said. ”Well almost perfect?...