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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Loaded down with too many heavy-duty courses about obscure topics with lengthy term papers, I decided a little late in the semester that I would indulge my Core tooth. I walked into Sanders Theatre to attend the fourth lecture of a certain well-known Harvard gut which shall remain nameless...well, okay--it rhymes with Gyros, pronounced correctly. Anyway, amid the post-lecture melee, I approached the head...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Isolated in the Information Age | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...wear black," says Reichek, as students nod solemnly or chuckle. After the class ends, the truth comes out. A student admits that the class's attire had in fact been planned in the studio the night before after TF Jennifer E. Mergel '98 announced that a Crimson reporter would attend the next class. Apparently, the group generated the idea of subverting the "artsy" stereotype, representing themselves as exactly that for the reporter's benefit...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: Our Town | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...afternoon's most poignant moment came whenRobert M. "Rusty" North '02 thanked Goldberg forher autobiography, saying that an essay he wroteon the book won him a scholarship that allowed himto attend Harvard...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Whoopi Goldberg Fields Questions, Holds Back Little | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

Government officials complied. On top of the usual assortment of incentives, worth more than $80 million, they agreed to form a joint educational venture, a sort of UPS University, that will allow students to attend classes offered by the University of Louisville, Jefferson Community College and Kentucky Tech-Jefferson Campus. Students enrolled in what has been dubbed the Metropolitan Scholars Program will be able to earn technical certifications and two-year or four-year degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: States At War | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, 99% of children, both rich and poor, have, with enthusiasm and efficiency, but without any formal teaching, taught themselves to speak their native tongue. And then in schools, they are forced to memorize and regurgitate and are certified by the rigid, demeaning, coercive, boring pseudo-academic institutions they attend. A few schools, by using only interesting material like newspapers, games, comic books, art, music and talk, have shown us how to stop schooling and start educating. They've eliminated formal assessment, stopped quizzing and pushed basic skills. ROBERT E. KAY Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 9, 1998 | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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