Word: problems
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...reports and committees don't seem to resolve the apparent crisis in advising at Harvard, perhaps it is because this approach implies advising is a problem that can be diagnosed and disposed of. Dean Fox observes that "somehow, people like to think that somewhere there's a good body of information," a definitive statement on "good" advising. "This is not a problem to be solved." Fox likes to compare it with discussions over financial affairs: "Advising and counseling is like financial management; it requires continual awareness...
...report approach, though, evidently was going nowhere, so the administration shifted into high gear: it formed a committee on advising and counseling. But reporting and committee work have left the "problem" of University advising intact. Many xeroxed copies and committee meetings later, students still rank faculty advising as the most troubled aspect of the college experience...
...participation percentage this year is also up significantly from last year's, when 58 per cent of the class pledged. Cominsky said student participation rose partly because "there wasn't any real problem on campus that would make seniors adverse to giving...
...committee members chose students whom they believed "had the capability to give out more than $50 without a real problem," Cominsky said. They do not use any financial background records when selecting these seniors, Cominsky said, but choose them by word-of-mouth. "There's nothing from the front office. It's very inexact and subjective...
...poisoning of Love Canal painfully shows, the problem of ordinary chemical pollution is horrendous enough. But potentially worse is the dilemma of how to dispose of radioactive wastes. Though countless schemes have been proposed for sealing the deadly stuff deep within the earth, few people seem willing to live on or near such a "hot" burial ground. Now scientists are suggesting another idea: banish the nuclear-age garbage to far-off space, using NASA'S shuttle as a kind of celestial dump truck when it finally flies, probably early next year...