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Amelie Syberberg follows this cue, in the last scenes of the film, stripping down to a white, flowing dress, hurrying past a projection of Frankenstein's bride. She sits on the moon, the stars above--out of human reach--she sits with her hands over her ears...
...STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE to the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), I have participated in the struggle for smaller classes, better teaching and more student/faculty contact. The realization I have emerged with is not that such goals are impossible, but that the process for achieving them is glacially slow. Time and again, Dean Rosovsky's words to the students ring true: "You are here for four years, I am here for life, and the University is here forever...
...over the centuries. As deeply entrenched as Widener Library is a way of thinking hostile to educational reform: Harvard's collective ego, a chest-thumping, self-assertiveness that blinds the school's faculty and administration to the faults of the institution. Chief among these misconceptions, the leitmotif of all CUE meetings, is an implacable faith that since Harvard is the best, no student should receive academic credit for work done elsewhere, work that is by definition sub-par to a Harvard Education...
...most egregious case of this ego at work is the Faculty Council's resounding rejection last May of the CUE study abroad legislation. The Council's ostensible reasons for its nearly unanimous opposition to the proposal concerned 'quality control' at other colleges, the difficulty of estimating how many students would go abroad, and the logistical problem of creating a bureaucratic structure to monitor the program...
Although the Faculty had ordered CUE to review the committee during this academic year, administrative errors will delay it until next year, Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, told CUE yesterday...