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...first years in Ec 10 find readings largely limited to the opinions of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein, who spent his glory days designing “voodoo economics” for President Reagan. Occasionally (perhaps through an oversight) an opposing view will slip into the sparse coursepack, but this is rare...
...hope it will be an occasion for thoughtful, serious consideration of the proposal in its entirety—not just a rubber stamp. The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) claims preregistration could lead to far-reaching improvements in multiple aspects of student life—from shortening the coursepack line to increasing the quality of section leaders to alleviating Harvard’s advising woes. But each of these expansive claims ought to be independently scrutinized. Undergraduates have expressed overwhelming disapproval of Kirby’s proposal, not because they do not understand the potential benefits of predicting enrollment figures...
Others believe the proposed changes would facilitate improved distribution of our class materials and books as well as reduce the costs of coursepacks. But preregistration will not actually shift the suggested deadlines for coursepack materials or textbook lists. In fact, Harvard Printing and Publishing Services CoursePack Coordinator Geraldine Barney explained that enrollment estimates are only one of many varied reasons for long coursepack production delays—issues such as the readability of submitted materials and communication with professors are tantamount. But most significantly, preregistration will prove useless in counteracting skyrocketing coursepack prices, which are almost entirely a consequence...
...last straw. The most expensive of these packets of photocopies, topping off at over $150, seems downright extortionary. But despite appearances, Harvard officials insist that Harvard doesn’t skim anything off the top of its burgeoning sourcebook business. “No profit is made from the coursepacks, and both the copying and finishing costs are minimal,” says Harvard Printing and Publishing Services (HPPS) CoursePack Coordinator Geraldine Barney...
...there are few savings to be reaped by putting coursepacks online. Companies do exist with inventories of thousands of copyright-cleared articles that are free if included in an online coursepack, but any article a professor wanted to use outside of those stockpiles would still accrue copyright fees. Students would have to pay for access to such Internet-based coursepacks, and only a tiny fraction of the cost of printed sourcebooks would be eliminated by saving on physical copying and distribution...