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...applaud administrators’ efforts to elicit student input. The inclusion of a total of eight students on the working groups responsible for making recommendations was one such positive move, undertaken at the outset of the curricular review. More recently, some of those eight students, as well as Gross and Wolcowitz, have held several House visits, soliciting ideas (and running their own by the small groups of students who attend) to include in the preliminary report...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Quiet Curricular Review | 3/16/2004 | See Source »

...releasing the working groups’ recommendations to the student body: to facilitate a fuller and more open debate about proposed changes. While Gross’s and Wolcowitz’s attempts to garner student input are appreciated, their model is flawed—if they are to elicit the widespread student opinions they should want, they must open up their process and allow working groups to air the ideas they’ve had more than a year to formulate...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Quiet Curricular Review | 3/16/2004 | See Source »

What Gross and Wolcowitz should not desire is another preregistration-style debacle, where the administration suggests an unpopular idea only to be rebuked by an angry, mobilized student body. And at least a few topics under discussion in the curricular review have the potential to elicit hard feelings from students. If Gross and Wolcowitz are to propose them, they should do so now, when the curricular review still has a conceptual dynamic, rather than when the Faculty has to consider a polished report...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Quiet Curricular Review | 3/16/2004 | See Source »

...camaraderie had split, like a cell undergoing a slow, painful and natural mitosis. Old friends are like that—they are the sadly familiar faces you see in the hallway, the ones that dapple the photographs you wish your mother would take off the mantle, the ones that elicit pangs of regret on graduation night...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Waters Around You Have Grown | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

Suggestions about how to elicit such information included an online forum in which students could post their opinions, adding new language to the Student Handbook encouraging the sharing of such information and a letter from the Dean’s office asking for feedback...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CUE Looks To Ease Add/Drop Procedure | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

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