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...recommend “reason and faith” as a general education requirement was a bold decision, and the Task Force’s commitment to innovation should be commended. But Harvard’s desire to follow in the footsteps of past curricular reviews by assuming the role of the gallant knight crusading into uncharted territory has gone too far. The Faculty should replace “reason and faith” with something more sensible...
Unlike at other junctures in Harvard’s history, a proposed change in the curriculum has been met with silence, particularly from undergraduates who seem to have tuned the curricular reforms out completely. The lack of engagement is frightening—this campus seems intent on forfeiting its chance to shape Harvard’s future...
It’s unreasonable to lay the blame for the dead air on the majority of undergraduates. Given that the curricular review has droned on for as long as most of us have been enrolled here, the lack of interest is understandable. But neither the duration of the review nor undergraduate apathy can excuse the inactivity of this campus’ leaders, who have made practically no effort to make the proposed reforms relevant for most Harvard students...
...last time Harvard Law School (HLS) had a comprehensive curricular review was in 1870—the Franco-Prussian war was just getting underway. Then, Dean Christopher C. Langdell instituted the first-year curriculum, consisting of contracts, torts, civil procedure, criminal, and property law, that has stood as the hallmark of first year American legal education to this day. Although Harvard can all too easily rest on its laurels, it is refreshing to see such decisive action emanating from the legal scholars here in Cambridge. We commend HLS Dean Elena Kagan and the HLS faculty for ensuring that our University...
...argue that the UC neither needs nor has a right to the money. For others, any UC fee is absurd: students should choose themselves which student groups receive their $75 and leave SAC to haggle with Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 over the Curricular Review...