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...January exam period draws to a close, many students are breathing sighs of relief at finishing their last ever post-winter break finals. Next year, Harvard will convert to a bi-semester calendar system, which moves exams to before the break, and therefore allows for a longer January vacation. Rationally, this should make me happy—there are plenty of good reasons to make the shift, and I benefit from these changes as much as anyone else. But as I begin to plan my final intersession, I can’t help but feel a little nostalgic...
...Harvard administrators suggest that the three weeks can be used to “encourage individual interests outside the University or provide enhanced educational opportunities such as study abroad, lab experiences, internships, and mini-courses.” But if one goal of the calendar reform was to decrease student stress levels, this is not the way to go about...
...Under the current calendar, for example, my break essentially begins at the culmination of fall classes and ends the first week of February, with just a few exams to interrupt my leisure. By allotting time for both studying and recreation, I can spend my never-ending reading period playing Halo until 5 a.m. on a weeknight and organizing epic games of snow football under dimly lit street lamps. Then I can look forward to an intersession of sledding down beautiful man-made jumps in Vermont...
...contrast, the new calendar encourages students to compete for flash-in-the-pan job opportunities too short to do any real good. For those who have no desire to spend the break doing something careerist or academic—and I’d venture to guess I’m not the only one—three weeks in January is too long to spend on campus. The result is that people will be stuck spending the vacation’s entirety at home, watching the same episode of SportsCenter four times each morning, instead of reuniting with their...
...state law, a candidate has one calendar week to contest the results of a recount to a three-judge panel appointed by the chief justice of the state's supreme court. Coleman, who led the race by 215 votes on Election Day, filed suit the very next day. He declared, in an "equal protections" clause argument, that there had been inconsistencies in the way in which counties tallied absentee ballots that election officials had mistakenly rejected. Moreover, Coleman alleges that 150 ballots were counted twice and that the board incorrectly included 133 ballots that had gone missing at a Minneapolis...