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...that the Prefect Program would be cancelled, College administrators met with prefect board members last night to reassure them that certain components of the freshmen-focused organization may be retained. Monique Rinere, the new associate dean of advising programs, said Monday afternoon that the Prefect Program would no longer exist in its present form but would be “morphed into something else.” But at a meeting yesterday with Prefect Program board members, Rinere said the fate of the program would not be decided until the soon-to-be-formed Student Advisory Board (SAB) recommends reforms...
...atheist. “I’d much rather call myself a humanist than atheist, because there’s a certain stigma to that word.”Leap of (non) faithFor Jose J. Rodriguez, a third year Harvard Law student, his conclusion that God did not exist was even more of a leap. “I was raised Catholic, but to say I was raised Catholic doesn’t really capture my beliefs,” he says. “I really did take on the spirituality, really wrestled with it, really promoted...
...presents sobering statistics about student retention rates and urges faculty to consider carefully why specific requirements exist aside from their historic presence or idealized purposes. Should an introductory chemistry class, for example, take the place of coursework that teaches the essentials of basic American citizenship? His point for universities is that simple knowledge of a subject area is not the same as imparting knowledge...
...sophomore year, he read Richard B. Hays’ “The Moral Vision of the New Testament”—a text on ethics in the Bible—and began to rethink his life and his faith.“God exists and I exist, and I started from there,” he says. Despite the messages he received from more extreme factions of his faith, Nelson knew that he could reconcile his identity and the church. “There was something about being a Christian that seemed consistent with my experience...
...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 other Christian groups as we could have hoped,” those issues no longer exist. Brewer says that the CSA hopes to co-sponsor next year’s Veritas Forum, and the HRCF insists that CSA would be welcome to participate. Both organizations speak of a desire to increase cooperation amongst Christian groups this year. And both are extremely optimistic about the state...