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Current freshmen might not be able to graduate under new general education requirements focusing on real-world applications of knowledge, the professor in charge of implementing the program said yesterday. Backing away from plans that would have ended the 29-year-old Core Curriculum for all students in as few as two years, Jay M. Harris, chair of the faculty and student committee in charge of the transition, said that the Class of 2011 will definitely be able to graduate under the Core. “They may have the option of finishing under Gen Ed, but that I can?...
...yoga--like spinning and running--can be harmful if practiced incorrectly, but its history of more than 5,000 years and its millions of practitioners worldwide attest to its benefits. Besides building strength and flexibility, yoga has been shown to have a positive effect on depression, anxiety, insomnia and core physiology...
...core of the debate is a fundamental issue: Is building roads one of those things, like trade policy, that only the Federal Government should steer, or is there a better way? Forty-five percent of the money spent on American roads comes to the states from the Federal Government, but Congress hasn't raised the gas tax, its main source of highway funds, since 1993. And that's just fine by people who find the free market efficient and earmark-free...
...doubt the best opportunity for us to be heard—the only time when anyone actually listens to the UC president. Regardless of what some may think about his presentation, Petersen boldly, but respectfully, remained faithful to the very students he was elected to represent by the basic core of his argument. With rhetorical flourish, Petersen said: “This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must...
...imminent danger. He feared an impending World War III that would make, as he put it, ‘the destruction of our cities including Cambridge quite possible.’”And while Conant, according to Faust, expressed confidence that Harvard would uphold the same core values if it continued to exist, Faust cited “a widespread lack of understanding and agreement about what universities ought to do and be,” arguing that the institutions are “at once celebrated and assailed.”“We must recognize...