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...moving - the everyday people in Velázquez and Rembrandt; the strobe-lit dramas in Ribera and Georges de La Tour - flow in part from ideas that Caravaggio placed before them. Only Poussin was untouched by him, which helps to explain why so much of Poussin is a classroom bore. In the last years of his life, Caravaggio drew back from the most dramatic devices of his earlier, more theatrical work. As his personal crisis worsened - in Malta in 1608 he was arrested again for another brawl and had to escape from prison - his palette and his configurations of space...
...walk past eight final club mansions owned and occupied by (admittedly changing but still largely) rich white male undergraduates—just look at the parking lot outside the Fly—it’s not easy. When you stare up at portraits in every dining hall and classroom and see no one that looks like you, when your dorms are named after known bigots—Former University President A. Lawrence Lowell makes Summers look positively PC—it’s not easy...
...bogged down by pressing deadlines and class responsibilities, is encouraged to experiment with new classes. Rather than promote intellectual inquiry, Wegner’s lottery contradicted the spirit of shopping period, undermining the enriching academic experience it is meant to foster. A disturbing conflict between school policy and classroom values became apparent in this case when students were penalized for heeding Harvard’s advice to explore as many classes as possible...
...actively engage in evaluating classes, teachers, syllabi, and so forth, so too do professors take the time to select students in order to create the best learning environment for their class. Certain criteria such as good attendance and punctuality are among the values professors seek to uphold in the classroom. “Shopping period goes both ways,” Wegner argued. “The students are shopping and so are professors…If you were in the room in a seat at the time the class began, I thought that was good enough criteria...
...thought it was the most reasonable method given that there was no administrative support for solving this problem with the current shopping system.” When it comes to capping small, yet popular, classes, the Registrar offers two possible solutions for professors: moving to a larger classroom (provided one is available) or instituting a lottery. For Psych 15, the former was not an option because there weren’t enough teaching fellows to manage the increased enrollment. Wegner was unable to accommodate a larger setting without undermining the quality of the project-focused class...