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Haley Barbour and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) clashed before a mainly partisan audience at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum Saturday, arguing over which political party is best qualified to lead America into the next century...
...effective because graduate and undergraduate students have different goals, different experiences; they are at different points in their lives and in their education. There is an uneven flow of information and knowledge, only because age dictates it. In my experience at Harvard, graduate student presence intimidates undergraduates, dominates the forum of open discussion and wastes $30,000. Let me add here that "primarily for undergraduates" seems to be a relative phrase for some faculty members...
...learning really serve no purpose to the busy professor. Office hours are hard to come by and when one is lucky enough to obtain them, they last about five minutes. This has become, however unfortunate, commonplace. What cannot and should not become regular and accepted is the stifling classroom forum, dominated by graduate students desperate for dissertation advisors, recommendations or employment at the expense of undergraduates. Tolerance should not exist for a classroom where equal opportunity is an obscene joke, and comfort and confidence is but a distant dream...
...will conclude with a 5:30 p.m. debate between Haley Barbour, chair of the Republican National Committee, and U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), chair of the Democratic National Committee. The debate will take place at the IOP's ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government...
...said the fellows and students come into contact at Forum events, study groups and casual interaction...