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...student representatives raise the pitch of their campaign to reform the College’s unusual academic calendar??which has fall term final exams coming after December break—they face a long and uncertain road to their goal...
...winter break and awkwardly situated intersession typically mean that it is too difficult, brief, and expensive for many students from distant states and, ever increasingly distant countries, to fly home. Even those who return do not have enough time for both friends and family during winter break, and our calendar??s uniqueness means friends are not even home during intersession. Time off from schoolwork would have helped to connect me with my siblings, extended family, and friends in California during my freshman year, but the calendar harshly truncates these opportunities. Let’s face it, Harvard?...
...Shade in the appropriate box for every date of menstrual bleeding. Use a dot to note light or minimal bleeding,” reads the calendar??s instructions...
When Linda J. Greenhouse ’68 became the first female reporter sent to the Albany bureau by The New York Times, she was “quite shocked” to find that women could not attend the main social event on the calendar??a show in which correspondents from predominantly male newspapers dressed in drag and performed parodies about state politics.“I protested, and it was quickly changed, but I still refused to be in the silly show,” writes Greenhouse, Harvard Law School’s 2006 Class...
...Dean from 1992 to 1996, during which time reading period policies came under scrutiny. During such discussions, Buell sided with the minority—those who felt reading period should be re-examined. “I guess if we were really going to do messing with the calendar??I’d like to see more class days and an abbreviated reading period and exam days,” he says. But Gomes calls reading period “an absolutely essential piece of our calendar.” He attempts to respect the spirit of Lowell?...