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Even in today’s world where airplanes, buses and cars dominate travel, a national railway continues to provide several important contributions. Fuel consumption—and the resulting pollution—per capita is drastically less for trains than for other major forms of transport, making Amtrak environmentally friendly. Continuing national rail service could also increase employment throughout the nation. And finally, Amtrak provides effective alternative transportation during times of crisis when other forms of travel may be impossible. As the drastic increase in ridership immediately after Sept. 11 showed, a strong national rail service is an essential...
...argue that a church struggling to fill its depleted ranks of priests might get more healthy, sexually mature candidates if married men and women were allowed in. But there is no sympathy in Rome for any alteration of the celibate, men-only clergy. The only realistic hope for such drastic reform, says Chester Gillis, a professor of theology at Georgetown University, lies with whoever succeeds the current Pope...
Alperowicz calls the changes to the class “a drastic improvement” over previous years, but agrees that the class requires further revision...
...Faculty’s recent decision will give undergraduates the ability to freely choose another elective, which is an important first step towards Core reform. But we see the modification only as a temporary stopgap, highlighting the fact that the Core system needs far more drastic changes...
...without further drastic changes, the deeper problems underlying the Core curriculum will continue to fester. Although Harvard should provide its students with a broad liberal arts education, the current Core program does more harm than good. Instead of allowing students to choose among the enriching courses that are offered in Harvard’s diverse array of concentrations, as a distribution requirement would do, the Core restricts students to choosing among watered-down survey courses that barely scrape the surface of the intended subject material. Similar departmental courses with identical approaches to knowledge—exposure to which...