Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trudge through January reading period, it seems fitting to discuss the issue of academic calendar reform. This issue is being considered even now by administrators and members of the Undergraduate Council. But the debate isn't a new one, and the reforms have not been forthcoming in the past because the issue grows more stale with each passing year...
Tradition, though, is not the only thing holding up calendar reform. There are questions of logistics, faculty support, and the likelihood that students would compromise on other issues in order to have exams before break...
...logistical questions--those dealing with the specific details of rescheduling exams and restructuring Harvard's calendar--seem to have little grounding. It is hard to believe that every other college in the country but Princeton has managed to schedule exams before vacation, and Harvard cannot. And Princeton, for its part, is close to approving a new calendar, which will include exams before break...
Council members proposed alterations to theacademic calendar which would set first semesterfinal exams before winter break and alignHarvard's academic schedule with those of mostcolleges throughout the country...
...Dean Jewett was receptive to our concernsabout calendar reform, but there area lot ofchannels we will have to go through before we caneffect change'" Garza said, "The administratorswere amenable to almost everything we suggested,though...