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...generation, and Streep, the most acclaimed actress of hers; when judged head-to-head, Moore ends up easily topping Streep, if for no other reason than that Streep persists in being an actress onscreen while Moore is content to be a person. The Hours screens...
...final paper. Quantity was the watchword of the class, not quality. And it was hardly a one-off. Response papers and their ilk (including the ubiquitous ID sections on examinations) are banal wastes of time for college students. They encourage eager students to spew out the half-digested content of a book in a response paper or to echo their professor’s lectures in their midterm or final; they surely do not force them to think for themselves...
...participation is the most foolish aspect of the current system. It is simply ludicrous that students should be coerced into going to class or contributing in section. If they choose not to attend a valuable course meeting, that is their loss. Alternatively, if a professor gives tedious lectures whose content can be more enjoyably gleaned from a book or if a teaching fellow leads facile and useless discussion sections, why should intelligent students be forced to waste their precious time solely to prove themselves committed enough to merit a good grade? A Harvard education should be about challenging the brightest...
Less sinister than such threats, but more persistent and pervasive, is the danger of cultural homogenization of content brought about by the loss of local control. Experience with limited deregulation in radio ownership should serve as a warning to the FCC not to deregulate other media. Since ownership restrictions in radio were relaxed in 1996, several large national corporations have snapped up local radio stations in droves. Clear Channel Communications, for example, now owns over 1,200 local radio stations across the nation...
...IOP’s programming is imbalanced, not offering enough for Harvard students while organizing too many speeches and formal events that emphasize what the Crimson editorial board has objected to as “the shallow side of politics.” We are proud of the content and value of our speaker series and events, as well as the other programming we currently offer, ranging from an annual study of college student attitudes to a civics teaching program for local middle schools. But we also constantly seek to broaden our scope, and this new focus was conceived partly...