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...alarm system for the body. When skin, cartilage, muscle or other tissue is injured, peripheral nerves in the area send a shrieking signal to the spinal cord and brain. The immediate result, usually processed in the spinal cord: you pull your hand away from the stove, you shift your weight off the broken bone, you sit down. All pain signals ultimately land in the brain, where they trigger thought ("That was dumb!"), emotions (tears, sobs), memories and a complex array of biochemical events aimed at protecting your body from further harm...
Engell noted that upon the completion of Expos, students generally “feel good” about the course, though this impression changes by senior year. He suggested that this shift in student attitude may be caused by the fact that even after completing Expos, students struggle to grasp the stylistic demands of different departments...
...remedy to the “undergraduate problem” may require the type of cultural shift that Summers has initiated. Perhaps some forceful leadership with support from alumni, and even confrontation, is in order if we wish to bring balance to the faculty’s parochial perspective on undergraduate life. While Summers’ recent remarks and disrespectful style are unfortunate, the real tragedy would be if the faculty’s current discontent with the man were used as a pretext to discount his important ideas on undergraduate reform...
...swelling torrent of criticism facing University President Lawrence H. Summers quickly broadened yesterday into a full-blown assault on his entire tenure in a shift which could ultimately prove far more damaging for Harvard’s embattled leader...
...policy—Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s Annual Letter to the Faculty and a report on the progress of the Curricular Review are the two items officially on the agenda—professors predict that today’s meeting will likely shift towards a discussion of Summers’ controversial tenure...