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Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 presented a proposal that would also allow for undergraduates to use online lecture videos in lieu of direct instruction, provided that they attend one-third of “the instructional periods of the course...
...dedication like this one and celebrate exemplary teaching at Harvard by honoring the nominees for the 25th annual Levenson Prize. The recipients of the three awards—one senior faculty member, one junior faculty member, and one teaching fellow—are selected each year by the Undergraduate Council from a pool of candidates nominated by students. Each award is presented by one of the students who nominated that particular honoree. East Asian Languages and Civilizations department chair Michael Puett was given the senior faculty award by Roland Lamb...
...Even the Undergraduate Council (UC), in response to bipartisan lobbying from both the Republican Club and the College Democrats, recently resolved that many University-imposed inconveniences on ROTC should be lifted—with the Democrat-sponsored proviso, of course, that DADT is despicable and violates Harvard’s anti-discrimination policy...
...restless young people in the U.S. Rather than a course correction, Terrence Tilley, now head of the Fordham University's theology department, wrote recently, his generation perceived "an interruption of history, a divine typhoon that left only the keel and structure of the church unchanged." They discerned in the Council a call to greater church democracy, and an assertion of individual conscience that could stand up to the authority of even the Pope. So, they battled the Vatican's birth-control ban, its rejection of female priests and insistence on celibacy, and its authoritarianism...
...cohere again, it will be around different defining issues. "It's a new ball game," admits Steinfels. As Tilley wrote recently in Commonweal regarding his fellow theologians, "A new generation has neither the baggage nor the ballast of mine. Theirs is the future. Let's hope they remember the Council as the most important event in twentieth-century Catholicism...