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...really pissed off," said Scott A. Rifkin '97, a Leverett resident who needs a Literature and Arts B course to graduate in June. Rifkin was astounded to find he was rejected from the course, which has an enrollment cap of 72 because of the need to keep studio sections small. "I've been trying to figure this out for the past couple of days. I haven't quite figured it out. It's a problem, because study cards are due tomorrow...
Literature and Arts B-10: "Art and Visual Culture: Introduction to the Study of Art and Architecture," has a cap of 293 students, based on the Sackler Museum auditorium's seating capacity. Likewise, Historical Study B-61: "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice, 1953-1969," has a limit of 315 students...
Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson's class, Science B-15: "Evolutionary Biology," has a cap of 220 students, mainly to limit the size of lab sections...
...Most of these other places cap enrollments, like Princeton," said Lewis. "We could do that too and keep everything small. I don't think students here would like it very much...
...fastest-growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2030, this group, inelegantly dubbed the old-old, will number 9 million, then will swell to 19 million in the following two decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before they are 80," says Danish researcher James Vaupel. "In those years there will be a lot of health and biomedical...