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...faculty legislation that would make CUE evaluations mandatory for all students. Such a system, which has been successfully enacted at Yale, would withhold grades from students who have not filled out their course evaluations either until they do so or until a certain amount of time has passed. The problem is that a student’s incentives to fill out their CUE evaluations—which at present amount to a miniscule chance of winning a free iPod or cash for one’s house—fail to offset the time it takes to fill out evaluations...
...face the dull stress of a work day, the pain of lost love, or the reality of warfare if our imaginations were still as free as children’s? And not even the impending summer is recess enough for the grown-up mind, because Harvard is not the problem, it’s just one step we’ve taken towards adult seriousness—imagination was just a treasure that we packed up on the way. Sarah C. McKetta ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is an anthropology concentrator in Winthrop House...
...selectively contrast very specific qualities of theirs with those of the Gehrkes, and quite frankly, I believe it is rather puerile—ignoring many great contributions of Kirshner and Loader. Such injudicious comparisons often have the tendency to over-emphasize flaws that were never a major problem. Most Quincy residents appreciate the Gehrkes’ style and are flattered by their extra efforts to make us feel at home and get to know us on a personal level. Certainly, many prefer their experience under the Gehrkes. But this precludes both the reality that Kirshner is the master of Quincy...
...Mayor, and his chief lieutenant on the project, Ellen Sahli, brush off the criticism. They note that Daley has had a record of success in tackling the city's worst problems: he lifted the nation's worst school system from academic poverty, razed the very high-rise ghettos his father erected generations ago, and nearly halved the city's murder rate. "I have always set high goals," Daley said. "This is a problem that can be solved." Many of his critics, however, aren't sure that this...
...clan for support and advice, urbanization and atomization have amputated those ties. "Families are more isolated now, and parents are backed into a corner," says Jun Saimura, head of social work research at the Japan Child and Family Research Institute. "In the old days, if young parents had a problem, they could seek advice from the neighbors in their community. But that local community is weakened...