Word: cues
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...goal will be to create a means by which conservatives can find a political outlet in the classroom,” said HRC board member Joshua M. Mendelsohn ’05. “We want to provide conservative students with information you could never find in the CUE Guide...
Courses and professors, more than any other factor, define the undergraduate experience. Students can only evaluate professors by sitting in on their classes; reading the CUE Guide alone is a poor substitute. Harvard has long claimed to encourage quality teaching from the Faculty, not just good research. Yet preregistration, by attempting to corral students into choosing courses sight unseen, would reduce the opportunity for students to search out these engaging teachers. This persuasive reasoning has underpinned shopping period for generations...
...nonbinding preregistration system would capture the best of both worlds. Students could indicate their expected plan of study a few weeks before the start of each semester, giving professors plenty of advance time. To facilitate their course selection, the CUE Guide, as well as each course’s syllabus, should be readily available online before the deadline for preregistration. In this way, students would be provided ahead of time much of the knowledge usually only available during shopping period, and their choices would be more accurate, allowing the registrar to select more appropriate classrooms and professors to hire...
...Still, Rove knows an opportunity when he sees one. In private, Republicans concede that Bush's focus on Iraq has vastly improved their chances in November and bless Rove for his efforts. More than a few G.O.P. candidates, taking their cue from Bush's political guru, are beating the war drums in their speeches and insinuating that their Democratic opponents are soft on defense. But others fear this kind of talk has gone too far and could backfire. "There are some high-level people in the White House, Karl Rove being the main driver, who are using this for politics...
...said she thinks the lower number is due to the course not being listed in the CUE Guide and that word-of-mouth, a large selling point for other courses, has not yet been generated...