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Between concentration requirements, secondary fields, citations, and the Core, Harvard students are lucky if they can manage to have one genuine elective per semester. But even after navigating all those requirements, another obstacle remains to choosing just any interesting class: the pressure to do well. Not everyone appreciates how intimidating...
Yet the strongest cause of intolerance comes from the multiculturalism that the feminists have taken on board. Multiculturalism is a strange combination of relativism and moralism. All cultures are equal and none can be privileged—that’s the relativism. But because some people claim privilege and...
The prospect of being a newcomer in a room full of experts—who have taken tutorials and actually read the books being casually referenced in class—would also not be so very intimidating if it weren’t for the reality of grades. The importance...
Conventional wisdom has it that too many “passes” suggest a lack of academic rigor, meaning many transcript-conscious students dare not take more than one or two pass/fail classes in their four years. Allowing students to switch back to letter-grading late in the semester...
Opening up the Core and Gen Ed requirements and extending the deadline for making the pass/fail versus letter-grading choice will lower the invisible barrier many students place in front of venturing outside their academic comfort zones. There is no substitute for students’ willingness to embrace the challenges...