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...administrative structure. Currently, a distinct lack of discerning judgment and capacity for constructive criticism plagues the Core’s current stewards: the Faculty’s Core Standing Committee (CSC). The Faculty should create a new student-faculty committee that more actively evaluates both course content and pedagogy when vetting and approving courses for general education credit...
...lack of strong oversight has allowed the current Core to decompose from a tight system guided by a clear rationale into the hodgepodge of specialty courses that it is today. Much of the blame goes to the CSC, which meets infrequently and prioritizes methods of student evaluation over course content when deciding which courses count for Core credit. For instance, the CSC insists that a course must have both a midterm and final examination, artificially limiting the number of courses that can satisfy a Core requirement...
...special concerts and fundraisers for Bill Clinton, Streisand has lately become even more entrenched in progressive causes. Her personal blog reads like the DailyKos, filled with statements about the upcoming midterm election. Furthermore, her political beliefs are also becoming part of her onstage persona as never before. No longer content with mediocre renditions of standards, Streisand’s new tour now includes a professional George W. Bush impersonator, who engages in an extended skit with Streisand in which the president is depicted as a bumbling moron...
Having received the correct diagnosis and treatment, Binckley is now robust, content and at ease. Her headaches and fainting spells are long gone. Her weight, once a wispy 100 lbs. on a 5-ft. 4-in. frame, ranges from 125 lbs. to 135 lbs. The biggest change, however, is that she's free of the tormenting worry about her body and what she eats. "Overall, I am happier and enjoying life like never before," she says. "To use food as a metaphor, life is delicious...
...have gained one lesson in my first three years at Harvard it is that anything worth doing involves a risk and, given the weak to non-existent content of much of what students talk about on a daily basis, I don’t feel we can’t do a whole lot worse. The ability to argue forcefully while remaining respectful and measured is a critical skill, and one that is rarely developed in classrooms anymore because of the almost complete abandonment of public speaking, and the palpable sense of apathy which infects most discussion sections...