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...general education courses it would include and encourage, but in its principles and rationale—it is anti-academic, even anti-intellectual.” Aware of these criticisms, Simmons said, she looks forward to the review process. “We’re very eager for faculty not only to share their thoughts with us, but also with each other,” she said. “Any change in the curriculum must be a change that the faculty as a whole can stand behind.” —Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt...
...same logic applies to professors. To teach a class full of eager faces is an inspiring task; the knowledge that students simply don’t care about their subject matter is not. Professors become more likely to engage their charges in a heated debate, work closely with them, or just show up and teach rather than hand the duty down to a teaching assistant...
...fates of his heroes (“Monster”-era R.E.M. comes to mind) and contemporaries (Kurt Cobain’s death must have loomed large at the time) was to put his messages into code.Where the “Crooked Rain” outtakes depicted a songwriter eager to win over the whole world with his delicate sensibilities, the “Wowee Zowee” detritus belongs to a man afraid to win in the game of music. It’s a story that’s the bands of today?...
...Keys have shorn their style to its very skeleton, its bones revealing a marriage of raw blues and Southern rock. Young men in t-shirts playing no-shtick rock in 2006, the Black Keys attract a wide variety of fans, from young indie-rock fans to 50-year-olds eager to see classic rockers that aren’t sagging pitifully in a way that strikes too close to home. The crowd at the Avalon came as no surprise, then, and tossle-headed twenty-somethings rubbed sweaty elbows with drunken father figures.The opening act, The Black Angels, took some warming...
...Harvard’s social scene. (The residents did not answer calls made to their listed room telephone number last night.)The UC party grant fund is a great asset to campus social life, and it is particularly valued because it leaves party-planning in the hands of eager students. The UC has a list of reasonable regulations that a party must meet to be funded, including that it must be advertised. But incidents like the Cabot N-33 fraud—a blatant example, but hardly the only one—demonstrate that the UC needs to tighten...