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...other day in the dining hall I saw an animal--an overgrown, grotesque beast covered with tangled dark hair, sharp teeth dripping with saliva and long brittle nails evocative of Freddie Kreuger. As I watched him prowl around the dining hall, a hollow hungry look on his face (he must have forgotten his ID card), I wondered why no one else noticed him. Deciding to ignore his foreboding presence, I swiped my card, filled my plate full of chicken fingers and sat down, determined to read my newspaper in peace...
...beast came to sit across from me. From the look on his face I could tell he wanted to make conversation. Feigning politeness, I asked for his name. "My name?" he snarled, baring his long yellow canines. "My name is Fear. And I am a senior...
...makes no difference if one has chosen any of the above, or if one is pursuing an "alternative" route ("alternative" by conservative Harvard standards, anyway). The heat is on and Fear is running rampant--a famished beast among us. No matter how hard you try to avoid him, he will come sit with you in the dining hall; he will stop to question you as you walk down the street (especially if you are dressed nicely and Fear thinks you are going to a meeting or an interview); he will even find you at parties...
...Ecuador, freak snowstorms in Mexico--this El Nino has already unleashed more than its share of epic mayhem. But precisely because its reach is so long and its effects so broadly distributed around the globe, it has been difficult for most people to appreciate the full force of the beast that underlies...
After a detailed review of this unwieldy beast, the Faculty decided last year that the Core Curriculum is here to stay--at least for a while. Based on the reforms--the addition of a quantitative reasoning requirement and certain departmental bypasses that we haven't yet seen--it seems clear that the extent of the problem was not properly assessed. In all likelihood, the formidable bureaucracy of the Core will crumble under the force of its own weight eventually and yield to the sensible solution of distribution requirements inspired by the philosophy of the Core. In the mean-time...