Word: cores
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...people who made 17 Again don't want to waste time reminding the movie's core fans why they're there. So right away, we see a shirtless Zac Efron on the basketball court, practicing his moves, radiating an innocent musk, his smoothly muscled torso seemingly gleaming with - not sweat - dew. The camera not only loves the 21-year-old actor but laps him; it wants to wring the moisture from his socks and drink it. Few female stars of Hollywood's golden age received the luminous, slow-motion, soft-focus devotion Efron gets here. The idea is to stir...
...Jehn wrote in an e-mail. “I’m confident that [the administration] will continue to take seriously our program’s request for better preceptor pay that reflects our Expos faculty’s high qualifications, their importance to a core academic mission at Harvard, and their cost of living in one of the nation’s most expensive urban areas.”In the past, Jehn has been an outspoken critic of the administration for underpaying its employees. In 2001, Jehn—then an Expos head preceptor—published...
...departmental courses and high-powered economics and statistics electives—the recruiters at D. E. Shaw & Co. are to be duly impressed—our young hero applies an entirely different set of criteria when it comes to fulfilling his General Education (The Curriculum Formerly Known as Core) requirements. Rather than “What will I learn?,” he asks himself, “When will I wake up to go to class?” After then cross-referencing those options with his now-only-digital Q Guide, with an eye toward maximizing his grade...
...Deeply troubling and extremely questionable, this recent development suggests that the administration is not at all serious about rethinking what ought to constitute a liberal education. The Program for General Education, finalized nearly two years ago, is a comically slight permutation of the Core Curriculum: Quantitative Reasoning becomes Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, Moral Reasoning becomes Ethical Reasoning, Foreign Cultures becomes Societies of the World, and so on. It is insulting that ostensibly the most intellectually rigorous body in academia (the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) thought the Harvard community—so well trained by the old Core...
...rationalizing the concept of required courses or fields of study by admitting that there exists a canon and that it is worth knowing. The administration’s decision to frustrate efforts to incorporate Great Books into the undergraduate curriculum suggests that the school has decided against changing the Core in any meaningful way. Dispirited, the ad hoc committee that was considering the issue, led by forward-thinking Professors David Armitage and Marjorie Garber, will no longer even meet. By framing the debate around Gen Ed in fundamentally semantic terms (look above at the main fruits of a ponderously lengthy...