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Writing this column yet again, I feel like a DJ who plays the same song over and over again: The governance of this College is broken. If we needed any further proof, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) provided it last Tuesday when it failed to achieve quorum at its most recent meeting. Over the past four years, votes at a third of FAS’s meetings have been meaningless because our rotating deans could not gather a sixth of the Faculty’s 700-or-so members—the minimum threshold for votes to become...
...Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a former Crimson associate editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Frank Furedi in his online column Really Bad Ideas, recently commented on the emergence of a new term: science combined with a definite article—the Science. Science and the Science have quite distinct meanings. Science is a tool that investigates the natural world. The Science is a moral, political, and dogmatic force. For example, science tells us the weight of calcium and voltage of lightning; the Science tells us not to eat trans-fats, how often to get colonoscopies, and how many cups of coffee are safe for daily consumption. While science is like a cool older brother...
...Ryder B. Kessler ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...Natalie Portman went here. Maybe the Admissions department should take that into account. If I were just following the family, I’d be at Butler now.Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is a classics and English and American literature and languages concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...