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...deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...
...directives seem distant and artificial. Imagine, therefore, the party to end all parties: the beer flows merrily from countless kegs; the stereo hum rumbles throughout the entire dorm; people are dancing; the furniture is flying; and Harvard seems a million miles away. Someone downstairs with a Chem 20 hourly the next day asks politely for a little more quiet. A fellow wearing only boxer shorts and a lampshade advises him to stick a carbon chain model in his ear. The volume knob hits "10." The police arrive...
Secondary criticism abounds. Through the generations, a vast oral tradition has developed, revolving, for the most part, around the most ludicrously easy courses, "guts," and those at the other end of the scale. The real ball-busters--Chem 20, Applied Math 110, Gov 10, and so on--have changed the direction of people's lives. They are not discussed frivolously. But in the ream of guts, every course has a funky nick-name and tales of casually attained honors grades to go with...
...Chem 20 leaves no doubts. "Structural theory, chemical transformations of aliphatic and aromatic compounds, elementary mechanistic theory...reactive intermediates (carbonium ions, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes) carbohydrates, amino acids and peptides. Heterocyclic compound. "For this you pay an extra $85. No non-credit or auditing students are allowed to witness the carnage. APSCS-120. "Structure and Interpretation of Programming." costs only $50, but make no mistake, this is AM 110 in disguise...
Tsomides says it's a shame that most people know Doering, who is also his advisor, only in the context of Chem 20, a course Tsomides says Doering hates to teach. He admits that the course's reputation as one of the College's most competitive leads most people to dread it; only by taking the class as a freshman, before word of its reputation had really sunk in, did Tsomides emerge relatively unscathed...