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...Harvard often verges on the “hardcore,” few students would intentionally drink themselves into a 0.4 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and an emergency intubation. The policy, however, rides on the principal finding of the Committee on Social Clubs—a body established by Dean Gross—that declares “undergraduates view excessive drinking…as an accepted feature of college life, and do not appreciate the very real risks that this kind of behavior entails...
...after Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced the school’s food company would be “moving toward using cage-free eggs,” Harvard University Dining Services said College dining halls would be going cage-free, as well...
Presidents, deans, and professors have completed the policy phase of Harvard’s Curricular Review. The General Education curriculum had a difficult birth. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby orphaned the Core Curriculum in 2003, without a vision of what should replace it. When a dazzling replacement did not develop quickly, the President disappeared from the discussion and was not heard from again. A year ago, an increasingly leaderless Faculty proposed a simple distribution requirement...
...early 2003, Dean Kirby kicked off the Curricular Review by bravely declaring, “We must overhaul the system by which students are, and more often, are not, given academic advice by faculty.” Scores of Faculty freshman advisers were recruited. Yet strangely, the fully overhauled system will have less Faculty advising than the old, not more. There are now undergraduate peer advisers and an Advising Programs Office with nine staff members. But next fall, no professor will advise any first-term sophomore. All sophomore advisors will be House tutors. Even professors who are members of House...
Harry R. Lewis is McKay Professor of Computer Science and Harvard College Professor. He was dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003. He is the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education...