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CORRECTION This editorial incorrectly stated that the Gen Ed Committee will be disbanded at the end of the year to be reconstituted as a number of smaller subcommittees. In fact, the Core Standing Committee will be disbanded at the end of year. The Crimson regrets the error...
...McCain’s task of keeping Republican core voters and party leaders satisfied while attempting to appeal to more moderate or independent voters requires a difficult juggling act. He needs to be more aware of the potential consequences of any step taken in either direction. His remarks against Bush at Xavier would have been consistent with his platform if he had not dutifully accepted Bush’s support and praised him a month earlier. Perhaps some Republican voters would have been similarly offended if McCain had more openly deflected Bush’s support...
...went and today, the Class of 2012 will commit to attend Harvard. But they will have done so with relative uncertainty as to what sort of education they will receive. When they arrive in the fall, they will be given the choice between the highly criticized and poorly administered Core curriculum, or being the first class to enroll in General Education...
...half ago, the chairs of the Task Force on General Education, English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Allison Simmons, presented a brand of liberal education that sought to prepare students to engage with an increasingly globalized and multicultural world. It was more than just a revamped Core curriculum; Gen Ed was meant to be a forerunner in 21st century American higher education...
...task of creating courses for this nascent program. Only 16 Gen Ed courses will be offered next fall, and only six more have been approved for the 2009-2010 academic year. In fact, a mere 40 proposals have even been submitted, many of which are nothing more than adapted Core courses...