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...venturing into the experiential side of the program, students find that—gasp??the textbooks and professors aren’t always right. Overachieving nerds that we are, this may seem like sacrilege, but it is in this that the program finds its unique value. “You have to learn if what you’re reading in books pans out,” says Professor John Mugane, director of the African Language Program...
...civility certainly wouldn’t have saved the Ephraimites. But we are not dealing with warfare here, or two cultures fighting for their survival. Taking a step back, it can be easy to forget that the fan wearing opposing colors takes a class with you or—gasp??even roots for the same team as you in a different sport. This playoff season, we must remember the ways we are not so different—not the sports-cap shibboleths that divide...
...personal crisis. I’m a liberal in every sense of the word—political and editorial. I think the Constitution is a living document. I believe in the flexibility and inevitable evolution of language. I even think it’s acceptable to—gasp??split my infinitives. Why, then, do I not embrace the new variant “healthcare?...
Plot twists ensue. Anatoly and Florence leave together for Budapest, where Anatoly faces Freddie once again and Florence revisits her scarring childhood. There are “gasp?? moments. Anatoly’s wife Svetlana (Victoria J. Benjamin ’12) decides not to wait idly in Russia while her husband embarks on an affair and instead pays a visit to the couple. Florence’s missing father vacillates between supposedly being alive and being presumed dead faster than you can say, “World Communist Conspiracy.” At one point...
...first to graduate entirely under the new program. Given that Gen Ed’s goal is a “curriculum that is responsive to the conditions of the twenty-first century,” students graduating before 2013 are left to wonder: are we receiving—gasp??a twentieth century education? And more importantly, is the search for a new “rationale” behind educational breadth a subtle admission of just how badly practical flaws undermine the current system? In short, yes. The Core Curriculum so poorly represents the ideal of general...