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...make decisions to protect the physical, emotional, psychological, or moral well being of students,” this heavy-handed regulation stifles the very educational benefits that student groups serve to provide—and it ostensibly does so in the interest of protecting a “moral being?? whose definition is strongly influenced by a tradition intolerant toward gays. That the legislation seems to be so clearly motivated by such conservative homophobia fundamentally violates that very notion of tolerance that our educational institutions ought to promote. But beyond our objections to the discriminatory nature...
...twenty-minute tours, on topics ranging from “The Artist as a Social Being?? to the especially popular “Sexy Ladies: the Female Nude,” were frequently interactive. According to Chen, they were intended to offer an exchange of ideas with docents passing on knowledge and, most importantly, providing an outlet for students to “connect with new people through...
...knowledge. The original report nodded in this direction by noting that many Harvard students are religious, and often struggle to sort out what they believe. The task force’s latest idea—a vaguely-stated “what it means to be a human being?? requirement—seems to be reaching towards this realization, but it looks to have been tacked on as an afterthought, not fully understood even by its proponents...
...professors have become engrossed in the intractable dispute of whether or not departments or fields are adequately represented in the proposed new requirements. Of course, the inclusion or exclusion of “Reason and Faith” and “what it means to be a human being?? as requirements in general education greatly affects the new system. But the problem with concentrating on categories and nomenclature is that no matter what titles professors pass, the key to success is strict regulation on how courses fit into those categories; without regulation...
...science courses, a year of foreign language training, and one course in a category much like the Core’s “Quantitative Reasoning.” The category most unlike any in the current Core addresses “what it means to be a human being??—but it has yet to be defined beyond the broadest strokes. “There are only so many ways to slice the salami,” History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 said in a phone interview after yesterday?...