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...list of dates, Harvard’s academic calendar has an immense impact on the lives of students, professors, and staff alike. Undergraduates particularly are dealt a raw deal—it influences travel plans, stress levels, relationships with friends and family, and more. But now, thanks to the Undergraduate Council’s online referendum, you can add your voice to the chorus calling for Harvard’s anachronistic calendar to change. Today through tomorrow at noon, log on to the UC website and vote yes on this important proposition. The UC’s proposal calls...
...chorus in favor of calendar reform grows, there is still one issue up for debate: whether Harvard should have a January term. But while such an inter-semester mini-term might be superficially appealing, we doubt that it could succeed in practice and hope the University does not try to implement a J-Term. In March 2004, the Committee on Calendar Reform, one of the curricular review committees, proposed a “4-1-4” schedule to align Harvard with most other colleges: The school year would start immediately after Labor Day and final exams would...
...Petersen said that he was ready to push for his proposal even if calendar reform doesn’t make it onto the Faculty docket this spring...
...members of the Faculty Council, the Faculty’s 19-member governing body, said yesterday that they favored calendar change...
Grant W. Dasher ’09, president of the Harvard Computing Society, a student group that previously contemplated building a similar portal, expressed doubts about CrimsonConnect’s prospects for success because other “campus calendar sites” had failed to catch...