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...seemed that the College was finally ready to reevaluate the Administrative Board of Harvard College, the archaic body of about 30 administrators that serves as the College’s primary disciplinary arm. This fall, we were told, a committee named by then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71would reevaluate the entire system, with a particular eye toward the lack of student representation on the Board. We had hoped that this reevaluation would fix the lack of due process in Harvard’s disciplinary system. But this summer, Gross abruptly resigned, and with...
...yesterday, the committee used anonymous course transcripts to examine the effects of an abrupt curricular switch. After the exercise, “there were several people who began to doubt the wisdom and feasibility of a hard transition,” according to Assistant Dean of the College Stephanie H. Kenen.In a “soft” transition, Gen Ed and the Core would co-exist for an adjustment period, and students could decide whether to stay under the Core or adopt the Gen Ed requirements instead.The difficulty of fitting Core courses into Gen Ed categories stands chief among...
...editorial “Squashing Summers” (Sept. 20) admits that Lawrence H. Summers “was not a perfect president” of Harvard but excoriates the hundreds of University of California (UC) faculty who objected to his planned talk to the UC Board of Regents as representing “the worst of academia.” Chair Richard Blum invited Summers to address a private dinner for the Regents, and then retracted the invitation after faculty objected...
Donations appeared relatively unaffected among all divisions of the University, suggesting that the risk that donors would withhold gifts between the resignation of Lawrence H. Summers and the naming of a new president did not materialize...
...screen in Cabot House’s dining hall, which displays the departure time and final destination of the next shuttle. The project, the brainchild of former Cabot House resident Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08, is now run by two resident tutors. Samuel H. Lipoff ’04 and Thomas J. Barnet-Lamb said they pulled several all-nighters last semester trying to program a computer to send the data to the LED. “It was as complicated as getting any of my chemistry experiments to work...