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...partial timeline for the implementation of the new program. The committee that administers the Core is slated to be dissolved at the end of the coming academic year—but the legislation does not spell out when the Core itself will cease to exist.Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said after yesterday’s meeting that undergraduates studying at Harvard during the transition period, excluding freshmen who enter the College after new requirements have been put in place, will be able to finish under either of the curricular programs. Thus, all current undergraduates...
...pleading Undergraduate Council president to reject a new rule that will hold student leaders responsible before the Administrative Board if students suffer “serious harm” because of alcohol abuse at their parties. The rule will take effect this fall. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Theda Skocpol urged their colleagues to require mandatory evaluations for all classes with at least five students. According to Gross, 95 percent of courses currently are evaluated, but, Skocpol said, course evaluation “is an instrument...
...student representatives—one from the UC’s Student Affairs Committee and one from the general student body—will join Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and University Health Services (UHS) Chief of Mental Health Richard D. Kadison as participants on the UHS-College committee, which UC Representative Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 described yesterday as “a team environment to come together and pool resources to improve health at Harvard...
...Helping those in need is at the very heart of the Christian faith, and Benedict appears inclined to strongly reiterate that principle. In his 2005 encyclical, he wrote passionately about the need to faith and charity one and the same. "For the Church, charity is not a kind of welfare activity which could equally well be left to others, but is a part of her nature, an indispensable expression of her very being," he writes. "It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable...
...Duncan MacLaren, the executive director of Caritas, the worldwide Catholic charity, says Benedict's message is a subtle departure from the Church's tradition of social teaching, which has been about changing unjust social structures. MacLaren told TIME: "The Pope is saying that there is something inside us, that there should be a Christian transformation within the process of people serving others." But it remains to be seen whether Benedict's emphasis on a personal spiritual response to poverty and inequality will satisfy those in his church who emphasize the fight for social justice outside of its walls...