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Seniors hoping to take Professor Owen Gingerich's popular Science A-17 course, "Astronomical Perspectives," may find themselves lotteried out this week in favor of younger students...
...Gingerich said that in class Monday and Wednesday, he expressed "sympathy for freshmen and sophomores hoping to take this course." Many seniors interpreted this statement as meaning that they would be shut out in the lottery, leading them to complain to Gingerich's office, he said. As a result, Gingerich said, "It is obvious that we are going to admit at least some seniors...
...course, which is given every other year, has not been over-enrolled before, and Gingerich said seniors have already had two opportunities to attend it without risking a lottery...
...closed mahogany doors. They seem to believe those who pay the bills won't mind as long as they are distracted by a Yale choir singing Slavic folk tunes at a birthday bash where Harvard profs become what Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science Owen J. Gingerich called, "a song-and-dance team for the alumni...
...Gingerich is one of a rare breed of professors who take the time to sculpt their courses so that they entertain as well as instruct...