Word: ec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the names or the theories behind those names. It has everything to do with the concept of wrestling with truths and not rushing to definite conclusions or accepting utopian visions and partisan platforms. The concept of systematic perfection, so central to the purposes of Gov 10, Ec 10 and Social Studies 10, is a false messiah. The best that can be learned from the ideas of political or moral reasoning offered in these courses are insights, not whole worlds. The solutions to questions are not answers but further questions, and those "answers" always necessarily sound a delightful cacophony. That...
Take, for example, class size. We complain about large classes, while forgetting that no one, not one single person, is required to take large classes; each person takes them voluntarily, based on his or her interests or the class's popularity. Students take Ec 10 because they have an interest in economics and want to explore that interest before committing to a concentration. Likewise with other classes: students take Justice or First Nights because they have no background in moral philosophy or classical opera, but want to learn about them...
Sure, we've been worrying about our academic performance, frowning TFs and that tool who did all the Ec 10 reading, but what we need is the heavy duty neuroses that only Woody can deliver. We want to worry about death, sex and even worrying for its own sake. We want to fear fear itself...
While maintaining its stronghold at the top of the list, Ec-10 lost some enrollment since last year, when 972 registered for the course...
Flying objects fell on students' heads from the Sanders Theatre balcony in Ec-10, according to P.R. "Randy" Seybold...