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Like the other artists, Gould-Wartofsky focused his readings on the topic of homelessness “just like you might write a love poem and get a girl to think of you in a deeper way. You can write a poem about, say, homelessness, and get people to think about that in a deeper...
While musicals are commonly performed around campus, rarely are they as fully homegrown. While Lawler had the idea to write a musical in fall 2003, the script was put on the back-burner when Lawler took a year off to train for the Olympic Trials as a swimmer. “I came back with about 60 pages of script and sent out an email on Cabot Open saying that I was looking for a composer.” That email turned up the composer Scheuer, already a veteran of three similar endeavors...
...large universities like Harvard or Princeton, undergraduates get used to having important decisions made without their say. Princeton, however, has introduced a greater measure of student input into its tenure process by putting letters from students regarding the performance of their professors in official faculty files. This letter-writing program is not new; but Princeton is now actively advertising, in the daily college newspaper and via e-mail, its students’ privilege to write about their professors. We hope this promising program works at Princeton, and we expect Harvard’s administration to watch and learn from Princeton?...
However, a letter crafted on the student’s own time might begin to close the gap between impression and reality. As part of Princeton’s system, any student can write a letter with his or her appraisal to Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin. These letters are put in professors’ files, which are reviewed yearly and also when professors are being considered for tenure decisions. While a letter from one student might be only a small part of evaluating a professor’s career, it still gives one more piece of evidence...
...would be the matter of how and when the University should collect such letters. Further, there would be a large sampling bias to these letters, since only the students who have extreme opinions—be they positive or negative—about the professor will likely bother to write...