TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Paula Marantz Cohen ? In a case of literary serendipity  right after I read Beck's piece  I stumbled onto an essay called "The Simplest Course I Ever Taught" in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Paula Marantz Cohen  dean of the Pennoni Honors College and professor of English at Drexel University.
 Cohen  describes  her  embrace of "slow teaching " an approach that designs a college course to "look closely â and by extension  slowly â at one major idea or text over the course of ten weeks."
Though the focus of  Cohen 's essay is a one-credit course  she  developed that "took the slow teaching approach to a new level" â  she  read aloud Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to her students  and they discussed the plot and characters together â  she  explains that the honors program  she  heads offers a whole set of slow-taught courses. One of them focused on Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species  an indication that science as well as the humanities is involved.
A deliberate change on professors' part from trying "to cram in as much material as possible over the course of a term " Cohen suggests  brings benefits to the students. "I am convinced that key concepts and texts will adhere better to memory and understanding if their presentation is slowed down "  she  says in  her  essay.
Given what I wrote here last year about celebrating intellectual engagement on college campuses  it's no surprise that I'm convinced by  Cohen 's points. I'm not a skeptic about the slow-teaching approach.
Did  Cohen  have any thoughts on whether slow teaching would be as effective in the science as in the humanities?  She  replied  in part:

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Terrance Williams ? Terrance Williams of New Jersey  had similar concerns about the ordeal.  He  was in the middle of the bus when the confusion started.
“The law is you see emergency lights  you pull over ”  Williams  said. “(The police) were in front of us  they were in back of us.”
 Williams  said at one point  he  thought the police were escorting the bus  not realizing the situation on the back of the bus.
Eventually  the bus stopped  and the passengers were escorted off the Greyhound one by one   Williams  said.
“They treated us like we were criminals  like we did something wrong ”  Williams  said. “OK  if you got the person you’re looking for and everything’s done  why are you detaining us?
“It was crazy ”  he  said.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jerry Richardson ? It has been a long time since two teams induced as many sofa spasms as the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers did  with those three false endings in the last two minutes. You thought  finally  the NFL is all about the game again. But just then  the skin-crawly headline came across the bottom of the screen  turning attention away from Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger to an old pot-belly named Jerry Richardson.
[Panthers owner Jerry Richardson announces plan to sell team amid NFL investigation]
Yet the viewer’s head swiveled back and forth between the Patriots-Steelers epic in the icing rain  and the alleged fetishes and racial attitudes of Carolina Panthers owner  Richardson  in  his  owner suite. On Friday  the Panthers announced that Richardson was being investigated for workplace abuses  and by Sunday morning  the story had exploded when Sports Illustrated published a host of sordid specific accusations ranging from sexual harassment to using a racial slur against an employee. These included Richardson supposedly asking to shave the legs of female employees and demanding to examine their backsides in their jeans.
But that wasn’t the end of the NFL day. Not thirty minutes after the final play in Pittsburgh  with fans still filing out of the stadium  came the seismic announcement that  Richardson  will be selling the Panthers  the franchise  he  has owned since it was founded in 1993. No explanation was offered  or needed. You have to assume that the disclosures were going to get uglier.
[Analysis: Forget the catch rule. The league has a replay problem] 
Richardson  is a perfect example of the extent to which the sheer girths of owners’ egos are eclipsing what should be the NFL’s true narrative: the game. Their incessant internecine rivalries and power struggles have become a chronic story line. It was  Richardson  who set the poisonous current tone of management-player relations  when  he  declared during the 2011 collective bargaining that the owners had “a [expletive] deal and we’re going to take back our league and [expletive] do something about it.” It was  Richardson  who  inexplicably grown arrogant on  his  Hardees franchise money  sat across a table and barked at Peyton Manning: “Do I need to help you read a revenue chart  son? Because I don’t know if you know how to read that.”
Richardson  no doubt  is also capable of individual kindness  and other owners will profess sorrow over his decision to sell  and wax nostalgic over the fact that he once caught passes from Johnny Unitas with the 1959-60 Baltimore Colts.  Richardson  is a self-made man  the first player since George Halas to acquire an ownership stake. But  Richardson   sadly  has acted as a toxic hardliner devoted to ensuring that no other player would ever be treated like a partner or equal.

SOLUTION:
Neutral