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...response to “UC Slates Curricular Review Meeting” (news, Feb. 27), I would suggest that Harvard’s interim president adopt a simple interim solution to reform of the core curriculum: vastly expand the number of departmental courses that count towards the core requirements...
...prompted the student body to reject the Faculty’s recent coup and support University President Lawrence H. Summers. Unfortunately, Wisse’s simple explanation does not withstand scrutiny; not only is she out of touch with students one third her age—a day of Core classes and a night at a final club would refute both of her claims—but she also uses a very specific, and ultimately untenable, definition of the Harvard “conservative...
...does Historical Study B-35, “The French Revolution: Causes, Processes, and Consequences,” satisfy a core requirement while History 1463, “Paris From the French Revolution Through the 19th Century,” does not? Because it says so in Courses of Instruction.Time and time again, we have endorsed the recommendations of the Committee on General Education, which call for the replacement of the current Core Curriculum’s 11 areas with three broader distribution requirements in the arts and humanities, study of societies, and science and technology that include all courses?...
...Orleans Building Corporation, a public development agency, says the port deal alone would open up riverfront for as much as $1 billion worth of development such as hotels and shops, perhaps performance spaces or a planetarium. "This is a giant step in a city that understands what its core business is-food, music, the riverfront, culture, architecture," says Cummings. A riverfront park, long championed by the non-profit Trust for Public Land, is expected to take shape over the next five years, attracting new condo and housing development. "The riverfront is the cornerstone to the renaissance of our city," says...
...Developing high-rise living on the riverfront-mixed with single-family housing-means the population of pre-Katrina New Orleans could fit on about half the land it covers now, according to Tulane School of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff. He notes that Washington, D.C., quickly turned around its inner core by offering tax incentives and other inducements for people to return. Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown...