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...response to “UC Slates Curricular Review Meeting” (news, Feb. 27), I would suggest that Harvard’s interim president adopt a simple interim solution to reform of the core curriculum: vastly expand the number of departmental courses that count towards the core requirements...
...hands of the Faculty, a group that will remain largely unchanged between now and the autumn, and whose discretion and prudence are even-handed enough to finalize this issue in the coming months if presented with that opportunity.It will also be advantageous to future members of our community to adopt of the recommendation that Harvard develop a system of secondary fields, a more integrative version of minors, in conjunction with the traditional concentration. By expanding undergraduates’ curricular opportunities, the Faculty can use this reform to benefit undergraduates throughout the College. And concentration choice should be delayed until...
...resignation of University President Lawrence H. Summers has raised a point of contention in the Harvard community: when the University faculty needs to speak, who speaks for it? Although it is easy for students at the College to adopt the attitude that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is the center of Harvard, the truth remains that Harvard is not an institution consisting solely of undergraduates, their professors, and members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Under the existing governing institutions, a single faculty can both too easily be dismissed as an outlier and too easily...
...obviously very excited to be bringing home a medal for the United States,” Ruggiero told the press on Monday. “I’m really proud of our team.”Ruggiero spoke with the kind of outlook that Stone asked Cahow to adopt in the wake of the team’s loss to Sweden. She joked that with one medal of each color she now possessed a complete set. The letdown of not getting a chance to square off against Canada will wear off, the sting of finishing third will fade...
...Maryland legislature will consider the change this week but is unlikely to adopt it. The amendment may never emerge from the judiciary committee, given that the body is run by a former defense attorney. Many defense attorneys argue that the constitutional right to confront one's accuser in court is too important to discard. And, says city of Baltimore public defender Elizabeth Julian, "it's too hard to prove exactly why a witness didn't come to court...