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...sent by Smith to faculty members on Friday afternoon. Although the curricular review was completed this spring, the Gen Ed requirements that will replace the Core will not apply to all students until after the current freshman class graduates, Jay M. Harris, the director of the committee established to implement Gen Ed, told The Crimson last week. As a result, all currently enrolled students will have the option of graduating under the Core system, though Core classes may diminish in number over the next few years, Smith wrote in the e-mail. “It will be difficult...
...this context, Faust shines like a beacon of hope. Perhaps her election will inspire more of us to set down the make-up bag and toe buffer—or whatever that horrifying-looking implement is—and find more productive ways to spend our time...
...academic freedom” because existing software cannot distinguish between legal and illegal downloading, and would place pressure on universities. “It would require them to allocate resources at the bidding of the entertainment industry, to report on work done to enforce others’ copyrights, to implement impossible technologies, and to be named-and-shamed if they ended up on the ‘25 worst’ list,” Seltzer wrote in an e-mail. The legislation calls for the U.S. Secretary of Education to identify the 25 colleges and universities with the highest...
...read every piece of paper that it receives. At Harvard, standardized tests are merely one additional indicator, not the difference between an acceptance letter and a rejection. This type of system is the ideal toward which all universities should strive. Unfortunately, many schools do not have the resources to implement such a costly holistic evaluation process, especially large state schools. For instance, the University of California at Los Angeles received upwards of 50,000 applications last year. Standardized tests might be a terrible system, but they are better than the alternatives.What reformers and Fitzsimmons’ Commission should focus...
...officials publicly maintain a neutral stance, saying only that the election should be held on time and without foreign meddling, a reference to Syria. But there is little doubt that Washington prefers a President who will continue to uphold Lebanon's independence from Syria and will seek to implement U.N. resolutions calling for the disarming of Hizballah, regarded by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. On the other hand, Syria, and its ally Iran, seem to be angling for a weak President who will not challenge Hizballah's armed status and who will oversee the formation of a new coalition...