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Boomers are fish in a barrel for improved nostalgia, but Gen X isn't far behind. In early April, Sony reissued four physical editions of Pearl Jam's 1992 album Ten at four price points. Each offered improved sound, a separate remix album, a DVD and thoughtful, creative packaging born of collaboration with the band. (A digital version without the extras is also available.) More important, Block's team reached out to Pearl Jam's fans and asked specific questions about what they wanted. In their first week of release, the various Tens combined to sell 55,000 copies - including...
...Gen Ed’s only hope for salvation lies in rationalizing the concept of required courses or fields of study by admitting that there exists a canon and that it is worth knowing. The administration’s decision to frustrate efforts to incorporate Great Books into the undergraduate curriculum suggests that the school has decided against changing the Core in any meaningful way. Dispirited, the ad hoc committee that was considering the issue, led by forward-thinking Professors David Armitage and Marjorie Garber, will no longer even meet. By framing the debate around Gen Ed in fundamentally semantic...
...classes approved for gen ed yesterday. 2 are new, 10 are modified. see www.generaleducation.fas.harvard.edu...
...When the Gen Ed committee rejects course proposals, Hall added, it is not to say that it is a bad class. He said that Russell’s course looked like “a fantastic course of a certain kind”—but not a Gen Ed course...
...Christopher Catizone ’06, who is currently a Harvard Law School student and tutor in Dunster House, said that a great books program would provide Harvard with an enriching unifying experience. He wrote an essay for the student essay collection on Gen Ed that was published in 2005, which made a rare case for the great books during the curricular review...