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Council members protested Summers’ management of several University initiatives, including development in Allston and what they perceived as a faltering curricular review...
...undergraduate experience and disinterested in long-term projects that will affect future classes. The student response to the Faculty’s inability to muster the quorum needed to expand the course evaluation system? Silence. And when the Undergraduate Council seemingly forgot to fill student representative seats on the curricular review committees, it was more of the same. This widespread student apathy has obvious and unfortunate consequences for life on campus. More troubling, however, is what our college experience is teaching us about our relationship to institutions on the whole, particularly when institutional decision-making doesn’t affect...
...still lags behind that at several other colleges, and without the constant prioritization and funding of undergraduate initiatives, both academic and social, Harvard cannot profess to be first rate. One particularly important task that has fallen squarely on the shoulders of Bok and Knowles is shepherding the Harvard College Curricular Review as it advances into its most critical stages. Other bold initiatives begun by Summers—the University’s expansion into Allston, its revamping of financial aid, and making Harvard the global hub of the life sciences, to name a few—remain uncompleted, and will...
...down season in a while,” Cross says. “It was kind of a lot of things hitting me at the same time, so I think that was a big difference.” Despite frequent hindrances, Cross pushed through organic chemistry and extra-curricular activities to prove herself yet again. After she led the team to its second Ivy championship in as many years, she finished third at Nationals as the team won its first-ever NCAA title, beating out numerous past winners in the process. What made Cross such an outstanding athlete...
Today’s Harvard emphasizes the former; just as the curricular review aims to “open new opportunities for student choice” in the courses they take, the administration overseeing student life seems motivated mostly by a desire to satisfy student demands, not by a desire to fulfill one vision of what a college should...