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...momentous day in Ethiopia this year. But while the rest of the world will solemnly mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in America, Ethiopians will be partying like it's 1999. That's because in Ethiopia, it really is 1999 - unlike most nations today that use the Gregorian calendar, the East African nation of more than 70 million has stuck to a Julian-inspired one. And according to that calendar, September 11 just happens to be the last day of the 20th century...
...President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 opened the proceedings yesterday with a reference to the e-mail that Interim President Derek C. Bok sent to undergraduates this week in which he pledged to solicit opinions on the prospect of changing the calendar...
...Association, the Harvard College Democrats, and the Harvard Republican Club. Some in attendance took issue with the timing of the list’s delivery, coming only a few weeks before students leave campus for the summer and just after the University responded to a major UC campaign for calendar reform. “It is unfair to say we’re being ignored, given that we’ve just heard back,” said Rebecca R. Gong ’08, president of the Woodbridge Society. “We don’t want...
...reasons given to me in support of a common calendar framework include the following. Such a framework would make it easier for students to take courses in Harvard Schools other than their own, as well as at MIT. It would also facilitate more teaching across Faculty lines, an objective recently endorsed by the University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering and the FAS Task Force on General Education. Students would finish fall term exams before winter vacation, allowing for a longer and less stressful break -- an advantage recently emphasized by the Undergraduate Council and reinforced in a letter...
...that several sources have expressed themselves on the subject of calendar reform, it seems only appropriate and fair to offer all interested parties an opportunity to be heard so that we may have a full range of arguments and views. Accordingly, I am soliciting the opinions of all members of the Harvard community, since all will be affected in one way or another by a resolution of the issues. Please send me your thoughts on the subject by the end of this month, either by e-mail to calendarreform@harvard.edu or by writing to me, care of Massachusetts Hall ("Attention: Calendar...