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...students frolicked with glee in the Yard, the infamous Core Curriculum recently sucked in its last breath. Those freed from its clutches, however, were too busy celebrating to see that its replacement, the General Education plan, fails to provide a fresh alternative. Instead of reinventing the old beast, as the College has done, the best solution would have been to truly liberalize our education requirements by eliminating them completely...
...open curriculum à la Brown or Amherst gives students the ultimate freedom to choose courses without having to satisfy requirements. The open curriculum is grounded in the idea that students will learn most in courses that they want to take. Aside from the obvious boon to students freed from obligation, it would add to the worth of every class. Learning requires interaction between the subject and the person, and not foisting matters on students would enhance the quality of discussions in such classes. Greater choice, in short, would lead to better students, who would also pay greater attention...
...militant is alleged by counter-terror officials to be a Qaeda-aligned terror kingpin and suspected of involvement in a number of plots around the world, including the "Millennium Bomb" plot aimed at Los Angeles International airport in 2000. Yet, as things stand, Abu Doha looks set to be freed from prison in Britain and deported on immigration violations, after the U.S dropped its bid to extradite him over the LAX plot...
...Staff writer Pamela T. Freed can be reached at pfreed@fas.harvard.edu...
...conditions on HoCos receiving UC funding. Those HoCos are no longer permitted to charge membership dues. In exchange, each residential HoCo now receives $4,500, a 22 percent raise. A co-chair of the Lowell HoCo, Jonathan V. Brewer ’07, said the increased funding has freed his House from its reliance on membership fees. Brewer said that Lowell HoCo leaders “hated charging house dues, and this increase gave us enough money to do away with them.” But one HoCo was less thrilled by the outcome of last night?...