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...said a co-sponsor of the bill, Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who is the vice-chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee. The Student Affairs Committee’s chair, Ryan A. Petersen ’08, said the proposal for secondary fields??which would be akin to minors—“allows students to pursue passions beyond their concentration.” But Petersen, who is also a co-sponsor of the bill, acknowledged that the reforms will force departments to re-evaluate concentration requirements and year-long tutorials...
Stephin Merritt Showtunes (Nonesuch) 3 of 5 Stars As Stephin Merritt releases go, the concept behind this one is pretty simple: between 2003 and 2005, Merritt—founder of the Magnetic Fields??wrote the scores for three operas. Then he compiled selections from them onto a single record, named it “Showtunes,” and released it as an album. No grand, sprawling ruminations on age-old concepts (as in “69 Love Songs”); no coy word games (as in 2004?...
...Choosing a concentration is no easy task, especially freshman year, and the April 2004 report on the Harvard College Curricular Review suggested that the concentration choice deadline be pushed back to the middle of sophomore year in order to allow students to “sample more courses and fields?? and “make better-informed choices.” There is much that is right in the curricular review, including suggestions to replace the Core Curriculum with distribution requirements and to implement broad foundational courses. But as faculty of the Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
Professors challenged proposed “secondary fields?? and course caps on concentrations as the Faculty debated a recently released Curricular Review report for a second consecutive meeting yesterday...
Laibson, an economics professor, also backtracked on the committee’s initial proposal to eliminate all joint concentrations in favor of secondary fields??akin to minors—and said that many popular joint concentrations would stay intact under the recommended system...