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...Students are initially considered for membership in Phi Beta Kappa based on their GPA after five semesters. The number of students nominated in each of the three broad areas—natural science, social science or humanities—is based on the percentage of students enrolled in each concentration within the class. Phi Beta Kappa sets up a quota for each of the fields in order to ensure parity across these categories. Those students with the highest GPAs are then nominated...
...Conservatives have long distrusted Gonzales, but until now many hesitated to criticize him publicly in the current controversy out or respect for the broad latitude they believe a President should have in selecting his cabinet. Behind the scenes, however, their opposition helped dissuade Bush from nominating Gonzales to the Supreme Court and, over the years, they have regularly disparaged him as too soft on key issues such as affirmative action and abortion. But as the President's popularity and political clout continue to decline, the group's assault on the Attorney General is designed to rally a growing number...
...dean is the only person who can allocate the funds needed to reward the development of new and exciting classes and pedagogical methods, and he or she must make doing so one of the top budgetary priorities.Tenured professors, however, are often not the best people to teach broad introductory courses that require a lot of legwork to found and run. Beyond juggling teaching, research, and advising, most professors are specialists and want to teach a course focused on the particular area in which they are an expert, which explains why so many Core courses are narrow and specific. There...
Secondly, the Committee has misinterpreted the problem and as a result has prescribed an overly-broad solution. The Committee was convened in response to two “near-death incidents” last term. One was an initiation by an unrecognized student group, and in the other, according to the Committee’s report, “an undergraduate officer of the organization was assigned the task of monitoring drinking, but instead participated in drinking, matching each shot taken by a partygoer.” In both of these cases, reckless drinking was either forced or encouraged...
...year. Calendar reform has been put on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ back burner for the past several years, thanks primarily to the urgency of the Harvard College Curricular Review. After all, the calendar should fit the curriculum, not vice-versa. But now the broad brushstrokes of the curricular review have been nearly finalized and the faculty is simply working out the details before a final vote. It thus makes sense to return to the issue of the calendar at this time, which is why the UC has begun its push for calendar reform in the past...