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...have a Ph.D."—James Wood does not assign texts. To assign, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is to "allocate a task or duty." James Wood does nothing of the sort. He simply suggests reading, then—five minutes into every class??asks whether students have found the time to complete it. When students sheepishly admit that they just couldn't fit those hundred pages into their busy schedules, he recommends that they read the novel over Spring Break...
...both. Students describe the Pulitzer-prize-possessing professor as funny, provocative, and opinionated. The dynamic lecturer who teaches by condensing a gargantuan subject into manageable themes and case studies also wows students with her sophisticated fashion sense. Aesthetics aside, Cosmo readers and African history enthusiasts alike appreciate this class??s reasonable course load.Asian fetishists, head on over to Historical Study A-14 “Japan: Traditions and Transformations.” The class is difficult, and readings are extensive, but individual TFs are good and lecture on their areas of expertise. One enthusiastic TF, who had just...
...time, but these machines, hulking Royals and sleek electrics alike, were all on the verge of extinction. Apple and Commodore and Radio Shack had already started selling small computers to consumers, but it was the release of the IBM PC in the summer of 1981, shortly after my class??s graduation, that would not only seal the fate of a century’s worth of writing technology but also instigate a flood of social changes that are still unfolding around...
...standard and does nothing but clog up a valuable spot for freshmen who, according to all the rhetoric surrounding delaying concentration choice, need as much freedom as possible to explore different concentrations. It’s time to stop pretending that Expos is a valuable “small class?? experience for everyone. Those who want to may choose to take it as an elective. I hope that in the next year, someone finally does the work necessary to find out what students think about these and other issues. We cannot reasonably expect any improvements...
...managing the campus pub project, has also been traveling around the country to speak to alums about the new fund. The fund allows donors to “attach a student face” to their contributions, he says.Eryn Ament Bingle ’95, who is her class??s co-chair for fundraising and a member of the HCF’s Executive Committee, says that alums are “very excited about the opportunity to direct [their] gifts to another aspect of undergraduate life.”“For my generation...