Word: coreness
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...Alex, is an ordinary teen whose fascination with skateboarding supersedes all other issues in his young life: casual sex, his broken family or certainly school. The legendary hangout is East Side Park, known to the hard core skateboarders as Paranoid Park. One night he lends his board to a stranger who in exchange offers to show him how to ride a freight train. It was a surprise to me that young people today even knew there were trains, let alone freight trains, let alone an outlaw tradition of riding the rails. Maybe Alex has some hobo blood...
...legislation passed Tuesday states that student representatives must be appointed to serve on the Standing Committee on General Education, the yet-to-be-formed group that will oversee the transition from the Core to the general education curriculum...
Many of the logistical questions surrounding the new curriculum have been left to this committee, which will be appointed this summer and replace the Core Standing Committee in summer...
...There’s going to need to be a new cadre of classes,” Nowski said. If professors only “change a line or two of their syllabus,” then students will only end up with “a Core by another name,” she said...
Indeed, perhaps the Harvard of fifty years ago provides a healthier academic and social model for us to follow. A substantive core curriculum ensured undergraduates learned math and read Shakespeare and Plato. Hyper-competitive students moderated themselves through a custom that shunned egoistic ambition. Grade inflation hardly existed, for earning a “Gentleman’s ‘C’” was no mark of shame—indeed, everyone already understood that a Harvard degree meant something...