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Moral issues aside, TF can make or break a student's experience in a course. Currently, undergraduates can choose courses based on the professor. In introductory language courses, where the professor is often absent, or in larger Core classes and intro courses, a student deserves to know who might be grading his or her work, and who will be answering questions...
...least give students an idea of a course's personnel structure. Presently, the course listing for Social Analysis 10, the largest course at Harvard with dozens of TFs, is indistinguishable, content aside, from a course on Livy's history of Rome, where ten undergraduates meet with a full professor and no TF at all. If we are to believe the administration that both these approaches to teaching are valid--and I do--then there is no harm in letting the students choose the approach that suits them in a given area of study...
...early days of the computer age, while her colleagues were building faster microchips and experimenting with artificial intelligence, M.I.T. professor Sherry Turkle was asking what the tech revolution meant for the people caught up in it. In her book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, she explored such questions as whether hackers were victims of stunted emotional development. In Life on the Screen, she pondered whether a sexual assault of one player by another in an online game is in any way a "real" rape...
Before the acquisition, 51 percent of company was held by Harvard Square Netcasting, a company owned by Gates and Appiah along with entertainer Quincy Jones, former Education School professor Harry Lasker and media executive Martin Payson...
...leap from the FBI to Harvard isn't that uncommon. Former HUPD Chief Robert Tonis spent 27 years with the FBI before coming to Cambridge. The Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School have a number of faculty ties to the FBI. Law School Professor William J. Stuntz, a criminal law expert, sometimes lectures at the legendary Quantico Academy in Virginia, where special agents train. Alan A. Stone, Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at the Law School, has been a consultant for the FBI during crises like the stand-off between law enforcement officials and the Branch...