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Much can be lost in translation. This is something that the three members of the committee that will draft the Faculty legislation that would implement the new general education curriculum should keep at the front of their minds. The committee may think—in the words of committee member and Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan—that it is engaging only in “translation.” It nevertheless holds broad power to affect the educations of a generation of Harvard students by determining the minutiae of implementation that students will...
...knit residential communities, which are bound together largely through shared meals. The flexible meal plan proposal has the potential to turn Harvard’s dining halls from House kitchens into House restaurants. Yet if we seek to build and maintain House community, an obvious first step is to implement more student-friendly dining hall hours. As with all questions of budgeting, we are faced with a choice. We could stick with the current system, and continue to complain about irrational and restrictive mealtimes indefinitely, or we could bite the bullet, pay the cost, and reap the benefits...
Harvard’s transformation of the third-year curriculum makes the school one of only a few top American medical schools—such as the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine—to implement a system where students remain in one setting for the entire year...
...curriculum’s architects said they hope Harvard’s move will encourage other medical schools to implement similar reforms. But institutional resistance to change may prove to be a major barrier at other schools, the authors said...
...Bulukumba's Padang village, divine mandate goes beyond the four bylaws. Over the past year, village chief Andi Rukman Abdul Jabbar, whose office door bears a sign barring women without headscarves from entering, has taken it upon himself to implement caning as punishment for adultery, gambling and drinking. (Similar penalties exist in the Sumatran province of Aceh, population 4 million, where legislators are now considering hand amputation in cases of theft.) So far, three people have been caned in Padang, while another was kicked out of the village for stealing. "In 2005, we used to have an incidence of theft...