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...have one qualm: The committee on General Education tends to veer towards anarchy instead of rigor. Yet rigor is precisely what we need. Although freedom is always a popular idea, it is not the best suited in our case. And however brilliant, our latest proposal—the Task Force??s Preliminary Report—might not be either. Both of them—just like the current Core—fail to see that as students, we come here to learn. Any desire for instruction is an acknowledgment of ignorance. We are thus not ready to make...
...Core Curriculum, the Task Force??s thinking goes, focuses too strongly on “ways of knowing” and too little on actual knowledge. So far so good; there is undoubtedly a certain breadth and depth of knowledge that every graduate ought to have...
Louis Menand turned in the “first draft” of his task force??s report early this month, and now he’s waiting to see if it will earn a passing grade...
Davis, who will be replacing Kathleen M. O’Toole—who resigned in June to assume the position of chief of Ireland’s national police force??has served as superintendent of police in Lowell, Mass. for the past 12 years...
When the Task Force??s report was released two weeks ago, it became readily apparent that the invisible hand was nowhere to be seen. Indeed, of the many current courses that are listed as examples that would fulfill various requirements, only two economics courses were cited—and both had extensive prerequisites. Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," the College’s largest course, had no clear place. Some have speculated that the omission of economics may be a product of faculty backlash against former President Lawrence H. Summers. Others have suggested economics fits under...