Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exam period from nine days to eight days would create the already mentioned problems, but I have to respectfully dissent on the grounds that trimming reading period by a day is not enough. If the administration were to comply with this request, it would effectively dodge the real issue: calendar reform. Reading period is no longer fulfilling its original goals and should therefore be reconsidered...
...making the alteration, the registrar contends, is that the problems associated with ending the spring exam period on Memorial Day weekend will be fixed. Huh? If exams now end on a Saturday and the motion moves the last final up by one day, then the laws of the calendar dictate that exams end on Friday--the beginning of Memorial Day weekend. Unless we're missing something here (after all, we're only Harvard students), we'll still be stuck taking exams and moving out on Memorial Day weekend...
Since Harvard is set in its traditions, it should stick with the one it has right now rather than make the proposed changes. What would be most beneficial is full calendar reform with fall exams in December. If you start school three weeks earlier, you maintain the full lengths of both reading and exam periods. You also don't have to worry about Saturdays or Memorial Day, and you get a real intersession--not the five- or six-day recovery period that exists right now. But Harvard's administrators never want to accept that point, so they may as well...
...think the fact that we can't even have spring when the calendar says we have spring, just shows that a rational viewpoint of the world is impossible," said Jeremy M. Fried- man '98, who is from Long Island. "If we can't rely on the calendar, then that shows we have to go back to a more primitive lifestyle...
Even with the evidence of local support, the FBI moved gingerly all week. The situation has escalated at a time dangerously close to the April 19 anniversary of the Waco debacle and last year's bombing in Oklahoma City, a red-letter date on the calendar of the extremist right. This time the FBI has been taking no chances. Trained negotiators have stayed in touch with the fugitives via a phone line that was kept operational when the regular lines to the house were cut off. The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, an elite assault force involved in the Ruby...