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...rewards of knowing students better come in many guises for these professors. In this month’s issue of The Atlantic, Weatherhead III University Professor Samuel P. Huntington discussed how his interactions with undergraduates are so rewarding because undergraduates tend to be more apt to challenge the professor than graduate students who are more respectful of academic norms. Travers said that his interactions have helped him to reconsider subjects outside of his traditional focus of British imperial history. Through his weekly lunches he has with undergraduates in his 40-person lecture class and his interactions with his freshman seminar...
...adapt to a more cosmopolitan/boring way of gettin’ down. “Another transition that was difficult to bear was the lackluster social scene,” explains Great Falls, Montana resident Alexander Blewett ’03. “My brother and I tend to throw blowout parties back in Montana, and it’s safe to say that even our chintzy Montana boondock parties far outclass the half-ass shmooze-fest social gatherings Harvard students refer to as parties...
...when I am bored and tend toward food thoughts, I wonder about squash soup or if baking whole-wheat foccacia crust would be a silly way to spend Saturday afternoon...
Clarkson’s biggest weakness has been its effectiveness on the power play, converting on only seven of 61 attempts (11 percent). The Knights have only averaged 2.27 goals per game this season but historically tend to play the Crimson close. Clarkson leads the career season series...
Faculty members are most often wary of teaching Core classes because they tend to be the largest and most unwieldy offered by the College. As Dean Susan Lewis, director of the Core Program, points out, students are often unaware of the huge amount of effort required to teach large classes. “[It requires] more section leaders and a much greater variety of course-related things to worry about. It’s a huge amount of pedagogical and administrative concerns, and this is a deterrent [for professors],” Lewis says...