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...good way to remedy this problem would be to incorporate work experience into every study abroad program. Working in a local shop, school, or office would provide a good context for students to make friends with locals. In a workplace there is plenty of material to sympathize with and talk about with one’s co-workers. Through these relationships, students could learn about culture in a more individual way and make sense of the numerous small facets of life they observe. You may observe that most of the town lives in standard-looking, three-room houses, but until...
...James asks. “We are serving, but it doesn’t end there. The way the UC should approach change is not by giving the administration a laundry list of things to change. It should foster student-based solutions, mobilize students behind the problem, and then lobby the administration.”James stresses that students should bring about change themselves instead of waiting for the slow-moving administrative process to run its course.One of the most important changes James and Wong hope to bring is Administrative Board reform.“I originally thought of running...
Kennedy School Professor Samantha Power has travelled the globe interviewing the victims, culprits, and arbitrators of human rights atoricities. Yet, she found the inspiration for her Pultizer Prize-winning work,“A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” right here in Cambridge. With the encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held...
...Epstein rightly calls attention to the content and quality of these elite university’s curricula—especially in the humanities and the social sciences—but the critique extends beyond the evisceration of the liberal arts into politically tendentious disciplines, to a fundamental problem in the ideology of meritocracy...
...pets in dorm rooms to the installation of a Hapsburg prince—amusing. While we do not consider them viable options to run the Undergraduate Council (and the candidates themselves may agree with us), they have made an interesting contribution to the election process, and highlight the undying problem of the UC’s apparent irrelevance to many students.Charles T. James ’09-’10 and Max H.Y. Wong ’10, on the other hand, raise serious and valuable points on important issues like Ad Board reform and financial...