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College students, and especially Harvard students, are a finicky bunch. We resent rules and scoff at the antiquated notion of in loco parentis, but at the same time demand that our deans and administrators pay careful attention to our needs. We're suspicious of authority but turn to University Hall whenever there's a problem with life at the College. We love complaining but are wary of giving even an inch of recognition to the men and women who make our undergraduate experience what...
Homeopathy, simply defined, is a system for treating diseases with highly diluted solutions of substances that in large doses would produce the same symptoms. Although a few contested studies have shown a slight benefit over the placebo effect, most scientists scoff at current homeopathic practices, pointing out that some "remedies" are so diluted that no active substance remains...
Besides the fewer science requirements in the Core, science concentrators often scoff that the courses offered are not very "science-y" in nature and that it is possible to graduate from Harvard learning very little about how the natural world works...
MOYERS: Some critics scoff at this whole notion of a deeper layer of meaning to what they call strictly kid stuff. I come down on the side that kid stuff is the stuff dreams are made...
Student leaders scoff at charges that they are mere puppets for union officials, pointing out that organizations of all political stripes have long looked to students to spark change. More important to the movement's quick rise, the leaders say, is the use of e-mail, which has enabled them to get the word out to students across the country. "There's no way hundreds of students would have marched up to a university administration building just because some human-rights group asked them to," says Tico Almeida, a Duke senior who led the campus rally back in January. "Students...