Word: coreness
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...still waiting to meet even a single Harvard student who likes the Core Curriculum. No doubt it will go unlamented once its long-anticipated, continuously-postponed repeal is finally accomplished. And then, the student body will let up some great declaration of “huh…whatever” to inaugurate the Core’s reincarnat…I mean, its replacement...
...suppose I never did value the Core. And I’m sure not about to right now. Yet, gradually, I’ve found myself brainwashed. Not by an illusion of the Core’s relevance—certainly...
Then add to a Harvard student life the Harvard Faculty, those souls who’ve spent their lives in this wildly diverse environment. For 30-odd years, young learners have been fed into the Core Curriculum’s crucible of randomness. Though for the Faculty, this is real, damn it, and not some merely contrived artifice. And now, by way of these professors’ new Curricular Review, comes the watchword “internationalization.” (The professoriate might as well giddily exclaim, “Radicalize the Revolution...
Rules are rules, and however much College students despise the Core (and will probably come to despise its successor), they also must cope with it. Only the most brazen, worldly-wise student, at ease with casting his GPA to the wind, will remain obdurate to the Core’s nefarious invitation to partake of novel “global perspectives”—generously complimented by a course’s tinge of academic ease...
This pervasive Core mentality has warped even how I view my hometown, the most intimate and unassuming of places. Now, Montana has been enlivened by a schizophrenic dramatis personae...