Word: ec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...list is long one. Lorena Bobbitt to speak at Radcliffe. WAC interviewed by fake reporters. Dean Nathans mocked in angry letters. Netwomen's Secret Santa gets rowdy. And, of course, the most infamous of all: giant inflatable penis disrupts Ec 10 lecture. Make no mistake dear readers, a specter is haunting our campus, the specter of Pranks...
Snow here is sort of like applesauce; it starts to brown shortly after being exposed to the air. In the case of applesauce, home ec teachers assure us, harmless enzymes are responsible for the discoloration. In the case of Cambridge, the browning results from the ubiquitous filth settling from exhaust pipes and copious dormitory fireplaces. Think of the snow as a facsimile of your lungs--and start worrying...
...allow people to switch majors easily. What if you decided during the fall semester to concentrate in Economics? You can't really begin taking Social Analysis 10, a noteable department course masquerading as a Core, in the spring semester. Nor can you take many other Economics courses before taking "Ec 10." The same is true of Music 51, another indivisible full-year course that many first-years take. Making a decision after one semester costs you a full year...
...Core itself already provides extensive evidence that such a system would work. Some of its courses, subtly skirting the problems mentioned earlier, serve as required or recommended starting points for concentrations. "Ec 10," Literature and Arts B-17 and B-18, Science B-15 and Historical Studies A-12 commonly assume this role. If they simply became regular courses available to fill Core requirements, the courses themselves would be fortified to live up to departmental norms...
Well, fine, but have you considered looking in that "Ec-10" book sitting untouched on your shelf to figure out why it is that, when it costs us about $7.50 per dinner, only $1.50 of it is actually going to the homeless? Or, for an advanced problem, how we could accomplish the same thing much more efficiently, and perhaps even do better...