Word: confusional
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Much of this concern, however, seems misdirected since course lotteries are nothing new. They have long been an inescapable nuisance and will remain so as long as students share common preferences. The real issue that must be faced is what caused the lotteries to prompt such confusion and outcry this...
"This was not a decision-taking meeting," Baker said. "That is not what we are here for. It did, I hope, clear up some of the confusion."
The dilemma faced by Slive and the sophomores in his "Rembrandt" class is but one example of the confusion and frustration generated by course lotteries in Core Curriculum classes over the past week.
Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art John M. Rosenfield, who teaches "Monuments" and is a member of the faculty's Standing Committee on the Core, says that the confusion surrounding course lotteries damages the Core's educational mission.
When the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) released a report last spring charging Harvard with "confusion" and "complacency" in its recruitment of minority faculty, they also said that Harvard had effectively buried an earlier report on affirmative action, the Whitla report of 1980.