Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reform involves much more than a single tradeoff. The council's suggested calendar would detract from the current schedule in several ways...
...plan. Currently students enjoy Columbus and Veterans Days, welcome respites from the monotony of the fall term. These islands of sanity amid a sea of midterm exams allow students to catch up on a problem set or a paper, or just catch their breath. The new calendar would bring no vacation until Thanksgiving, which would remain a two-day recess. Yale and Penn at least have either a week off for Thanksgiving or two days of fall break in October...
...lingering summer job problem. One of the most convincing reasons for changing Harvard's calendar pertains to summer employment for students. Since employers have tailored many of their job programs to the schedule of most colleges around the country, undergraduates here often feel at a disadvantage in the summer job market. Critics of the current system advocate pushing the entire year back about three weeks for this reason...
...council's proposal fails to address this most compelling concern. Since Harvard's commencement is fixed by charter, much more than a student referendum would be required to move graduation into May. Therefore, the new calendar would leave the spring semester virtually untouched, ending exam period a mere three days earlier than it currently does. Change of this sort hardly seems worth the hassle...
...administrators and the council share a common blind spot when it comes to the issue of calendar reform: it's a bogus issue. Only an increased emphasis on teaching will really improve the lives of undergraduates at Harvard. Juggling vacation dates is merely a convenient way to hide from dealing with the real issues at stake. The council is excited about the wrong cause; the administration is entirely too smug...