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Astronomy professor David Charbonneau, who began teaching the course in 2005 and earned a high 4.3 overall score for the class that year, admits that he has trouble explaining the perceived increase in the course’s difficulty or the drop in enrollment...
Although the drop in enrollment has been a surprise for Charbonneau, it has not necessarily been an unpleasant one. He says that the effects of the decreased enrollment have been mostly positive...
...their doors daily. The program, which also allows students to opt out of delivery of other student publications and fliers, aims to reduce the use of paper on campus. It is with a heavy heart that I support this program, which is informally called the “door-drop waste reduction program.” In short, this program assumes that, in many instances, paper use equals paper waste. Consider this comparison: Suppose the average student reads three articles a day in The Crimson, spending a total of 15 minutes doing so. Apply this assumption to the approximately...
...diction, the accents, the body language, the facial expressions, even the way the characters walk—it all reflects every detail of some stereotype or another, some character who is a caricature of him- or herself. At the drop of a hat Sun is a slouchy, mouthing-off teenager named Jerome, and one second later she is meek, investment-banker-turned-educator Ms. Tam, trying vainly to convince Jerome to come to a 41-minute class less than 20 minutes late...
...Justin Long, who literally play The Beatles. Instead of the giddy surprise viewers experience during well-placed cameos, such as Ferrell’s uncredited appearance at the end of “Wedding Crashers,” there is the distinct impression that all of the celebrity drop-ins are mere smoke and mirrors to distract from a lead who, while passably funny, doesn’t have the comedic chops of his compatriots.As for the humor, Apatow and friends take shot after ever-cheaper shot at the Cash mystique. When the jokes hit, they’re usually...