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...decide which student groups get UC funding.Hwang says groups would post their grants online, and students would cast their votes for which organizations should receive funding. The UC would then grant funding to groups with the most votes. “The votes [would be] a recommendation, not a constraint,” he says, although the UC would consider those votes “a very strong mandate from the people.”Hwang says, for example, that the UC’s decision last semester to increase funding for residential Houses that do not charge member dues...
...instruct undergraduates in literature and the arts is simply to retain the current Literature and Arts A and B categories as they stand in lieu of the proposed Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change category. What should not be retained from the present system, however, is the general constraint that few departmental offerings satisfy Literature and Arts requirements. Any course—be it under a department or under some extra-departmental administration—should satisfy either requirement if it contains substantial engagement with that category’s subject matter. For instance, English 124d, “Shakespearean Tragedy...
...year. Interviewed in his freshly redecorated corner office, the new dean said he wanted to use his remaining 42 weeks in University Hall to ameliorate some of the frustrations that students and faculty have voiced in the past. “I am well aware of the feelings of constraint and the range of offerings in the Core,” said Knowles, who led the Faculty of Arts and Sciences through the 1990s. “I have a strong hope that we can arrive at an important and even exciting new shape for general education in the College?...
...heart of the battle is the question of whether the President is above the law. The White House has repeatedly argued he is - at least when he is acting as commander-in-chief in time of war. The only constraint on his power in those circumstances, the White House has argued, is the Constitution itself; no laws passed by Congress or treaties ratified by it can limit what the President does. Back when the story of Bush's wiretapping broke in December, the Administration was still holding the line on that argument. And with the politics of the issue...
...thus there is no one defining “Harvard education.” The last century has seen a multiplicity of experiments: from a free elective system, from one of concentration and constraint, to the structures of General Education and Core, to our most recent recommendations to give the extraordinary students we admit to this place considerably greater agency in shaping their own education. Each generation has both the freedom and responsibility to define a Harvard education for its time...