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Starting next semester, the current system of coursepack distribution, with its paperwork and hour-long lines, will become a piece of Harvard history...
...Coursepack ordering will be carried out exclusively online starting Jan. 28, according to Kenton Doyle, Harvard Printing and Publishing Service’s technical projects manager...
Cathy I. Cheng ’07, who said she felt the change was needed, described the old coursepack ordering system as “a huge line and two people to help them...
...science courses. Instead of merely parroting back the arguments and objections they heard in lecture, students would need to evaluate those theories against new cases they unearthed and different information they discovered. Searching through books and magazines in the library is cathartic in a way that thumbing through a coursepack can never be; an idea that you discover on your own is infinitely more rewarding than one presented to you on Harvard’s silver platter. And in that “Eureka!” moment, real intellectual originality is born...
...cite one example: out of eight articles in the coursepack on Social Security, five are written by Feldstein or present favorable summaries of his position. Two are written by others in support of Feldstein. Of the eight, only one opposes Feldstein’s plan for privatizing social security, and even this article calls for a “balance” between private savings plans and Social Security, not better social insurance. While polls show strong skepticism among policymakers and the public about Social Security privatization, Ec 10 acts as though the debate has already been settled in favor...