Word: ec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dartboard never realized supply-side economics could be so titillating. Apparently, we're mistaken. Two amorous students were spotted studying stocks and "bonds" in depth, so to speak, in Ec 10 lecture Wednesday. Maybe the two found each other's gaze so stirring that they forgot they were in the back row of a lecture hall and not a dark movie theater...
What we students need to do, instead of simply pressuring the administration to make changes, is to take the initiative in reforming our own education. The path has already been blazed by a number of students who have formed an alternative study group within Ec 10 to provide fellow students with access to critiques of traditional economic theory. Efforts such as these must be pursued in a wider variety of fields, not simply to provide alternatives to the ideas expressed in Harvard classes but to provide students with greater opportunities to teach and learn from each other and to experiment...
Looking at this scenery while flipping through the Ec-10 sourcebook may inspire you to join House crew--or to take a nap. Dotted with blankets, chairs and picnic baskets, on sunny days the river bank might aptly be named Harvard Beach. But bring a friend; the peaceful sanctuary of the River is easily disturbed by the stray shady character strolling along Memorial Drive...
...drinker's mouth green, all deserve examination. Is this simply, as Maximillian Gomez-Trochez '00 put it, "The Coca-Cola attempt to put down those irresponsible Mountain Dewers"? Another example of "porcine capitalism at its worst"? Garish vocabulary aside, Gomez-Trochez has a point which no survivor of Ec 10 can ignore. Surge may just be Coca-Cola's attempt at a "substitute good" for Mountain Dew, an attempt to shoulder its way into the strangely-tinted-and-highly-caffeinated soft drink market...
...think a comment by my Economics 10 TF exemplifies my new outlook on Harvard life. After explaining the wacky nature of the segmented Ec 10 grading curves, she said, "In the long run, this test is merely a blip on the radar of your life...