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...effort to create a coordinated university-wide calendar, Interim President Derek C. Bok in 2007 approved a new month-long break between semesters at the College, known colloquially as J-Term and officially as Winter Break. This January marks the first time in recent history that, from Jan. 4 through Jan. 22, students will no longer be hunkering down in library carrels preparing for final exams. Instead, undergraduates will be pursuing self-directed activities on campus or will be required to vacate the premises. Unfortunately, that choice, which should rest with students, instead depends largely on the whims...
...during freshman week, and much more so the information we were supposed to have learned from each planned event. However, three years later, “Sex Signals,” a freshman week rite of passage, still stands apart from everything else that filled the pages of the Calendar of Opening Days. After attending the performance this week, I can report few changes have been made over the years...
...This is the first academic year that the College faces an extended break between fall and spring semesters. Interim University President Derek Bok created the month long gap when he approved a new University calendar that moved final exams to before the winter recess...
...While University-wide calendar reform was being considered, the idea of having academic programming—similar to that offered at MIT or Williams—was suggested by the calendar reform committee. After the revised calendar was adopted, ideas for programming were discussed, but with the University facing rising financial hardship last fall, it became clear that official college programming would be off the table...
While it might be true that the calendar reform we supported necessitated changes to Camp Harvard, and that six days isn’t that much shorter than a week, and that incoming freshmen probably don’t notice the difference, and that there’s probably still an overwhelming amount of ice cream, we still remain highly concerned. As the academic year begins, we shudder at the dangers lying ahead for Harvard’s poorly oriented, unlucky Class...