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Last May, the flaws of the constantly maligned Core Curriculum were recognized by the Faculty in legislation. But what does that mean for current students? Apparently, not much. Given the Faculty??s glacial pace on this issue, the Classes of 2008, 2009, and 2010 are already resigned to their fate: there’s no escaping the Core. And given the Core-centric advice received over the past two weeks by the Class of 2011, it seems that the College thinks they too will not get to reap the benefits of a revitalized General Education program. In other...
...were days when Dershowitz would send two to three e-mails to members of the political science department about him. During a phone interview with Finkelstein conducted by The Crimson, listeners in the background—whom the professor did not name but said were colleagues on the DePaul faculty??audibly expressed their assent regarding the copious extent to which Dershowitz circulated his testimony about the man that he has called a “fraudulent scholar” and a “Jewish anti-semite...
...Thus, the question of whether the Faculty??with its elaborate bureaucracy and deeply ingrained traditions—will actually adopt most of Skocpol’s reforms is an open one. “It depends entirely on the commitment of the next dean to make sure that these go forward,” she said...
...With the end of the year approaching, a sense of urgency pervaded the Faculty??s leadership. In the second to last Faculty meeting, Bok’s hand tightened in frustration around the presidential gavel. Theda Skocpol, outgoing dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, whispered, “Patience! Patience!” into his ear. The brow of Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 seemed permanently furrowed...
...Faculty??s governing board rejected a proposal to move fall exams to December, with professors saying they were unconvinced that such a move would benefit them. Ten years later, a University-wide committee proposed changing the calendar in a similar way—but the plan was tabled pending the end of the curricular review...