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Efforts by the student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) to create a two-day buffer period during reading period stalled yesterday when the committee decided the issue needed further study before being put to a vote by the Faculty Council...
...last meeting of the CUE two weeks ago, the committee supported a plan to cancel classes on the Thursday and Friday before exam week in order to give students a break from work. The committee suggested compensating for the loss of the two class days by having classes on two holidays during the semester...
...believe that the people who teach these classes will not simply extend the work into the "buffer period" of two days despite efforts to restrict work during that period. As Mr. Barron and Mr. Saal pointed out, reading period was "originally set aside...as lecture-free time." Yet, CUE Chairman Dean Steven Ozment himself said "No faculty member will dictate to another how to teach their courses. Once you're in a class you play by the rules of the master." Professors of such courses as Chemistry 17 are sure to abuse the extra two days...
...extra-curricular energies to study for finals, the student population adopts a perturbing distortion of life which almost suffocates the individual. The quality of life and spirits of students precipitously drop during reading period. More than any other time, students surrender control of their lives to Harvard. Now, the CUE plans to lengthen that awful limbo that haunts students twice a year...
...problem is that some professors encroach upon students' time to which they have no right. Since the CUE is perfectly willing to let this continue, its response is to make reading period longer. But, the professors in question have already managed to take over the normal reading period despite its avowed purpose. There is no reason why they will not intrude into the "buffer" days. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that these professors will take over this "buffer period". Consider Dean Ozment's admonition that faculty will not dictate to faculty how to run classes. In essence...