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...Within the pages of Harvard's two academic bibles-the Courses of Instruction catalog and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) guide-the monster class is conceived. Save for a week of so-called "shopping," with daily battles to grab half a syllabus, official Harvard literature provides students with the only concrete evidence of the class to come, and many students scrutinize these books, studying enrollment stats and reading into course titles...
Berkowitz is helpful and accessible to undergraduates. Over the years he has consistently scored high on the CUE guide ratings, and many of us have had the great privilege of learning from him. He is always well-prepared, entertaining and enlightening. He gives lucid lectures drawing from a variety of fields, including religion and literature...
...knowledge has turned into the golden calf of human capital, academic purists are crusaders in an unholy land--Willie Lomans in a web of modern market forces. Today's students do not take classes. They shop for them. They do not read Courses of Instruction. They read the CUE Guide, the academic equivalent of Consumer Reports. It is no wonder that, for the first time ever, professors caved into the demands of capitalism and started competing for students...
...their registration packets a neon-colored flier telling them to check out Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution." At nine that morning, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar tells a packed lecture hall his course had been given a "very favorable review" by the CUE Guide and that one-third of past students have found his lectures to be "enthralling and very clearly organized...
...play with matches because the Senate was fireproof, that Monica was more likely to be invited to tea with Hillary than to testify before the heirs of Daniel Webster, we begin a brand-new year full of startling events to misinterpret and fresh expectations to defy. And so on cue the Senate set about defying them, managing to do what no politicians on this stage had done last year: remain calm, act like grownups and find the safest way to an exit...