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...Recreation and Convocation Center was rocking, filled with a capacity crowd of 4,500 that watched the Great Danes jump all over an overmatched Catamounts squad early and never ease up all game. Albany fans, waving “growl towels,” showed up early to establish the atmosphere and then stormed the court in a wave of purple and yellow after the victory became official...
...information—the facts themselves—can carry the day. Broad survey courses ask questions that help students connect the dots of otherwise loosely connected material. History 10a should continue to be taught and continue to be required of history concentrators. The History Department may decide to establish a proficiency test of some form in order to excuse the few students who already possess the background the course provides, but for most concentrators, taking the course is a necessity. Moreover, if History 10a is failing to meet its worthy mission of providing history concentrators with a background?...
...same time. More importantly, making prefects academic advisors blurs the relationship between students and prefects. Prefects, to do their jobs effectively, need to develop casual and informal relationships with students, something that will be made difficult if prefects are expected to be formal academic advisors. Instead, the College should establish a new peer advising program alongside a better funded and better managed Prefect Program. Freshmen would benefit invaluably from the kind of honest and practical advice upperclassmen can provide. Peer advisors could tell freshmen which Core has a lighter workload and which professor just reads from a script in lecture...
...down the offer. The CSA also turned down membership in Harvard Christian Unity, a group formed a few years ago to facilitate the planning of the Veritas Forum. “We initially expressed reluctance at joining,” Brewer says, “because they wanted to establish a definition for membership.” When the Harvard Latter-Day Saints were told they couldn’t join, the CSA refused to participate.MENDING A SCHISMBut Brewer says that while “there have been minor issues that have prevented the CSA from getting as active with...
These poets “aim to establish in the reader’s imagination a more admirable ethics of relation, one more desirable than can be found at present on the earth,” Vendler writes in her concluding remarks. “Intimacy with the invisible is an intimacy with hope...