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...Council of Masters, the deliberative body that has significant input on questions of House life, met last Wednesday to discuss the proposal. In a blow to undergraduates, the Masters decided to cancel the Thursday night’s parties. Now, instead of two consecutive nights of coordinated events, large parties will be confined to Friday evening, and will take place in the River and the Quad simultaneously...
...after achieving placement test scores that were too high for that level. One of these students was Yifan Zhang ’10. “What really bothers me about the Chinese system is how they didn’t listen to your personal preferences or your own input on your ability level,” Zhang said. “They base everything on an arbitrary test.” After trying Chinese 140a, “Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese,” Zhang found it too hard and decided not to take Chinese this fall...
...about the purposes of General Education and the goals that would help achieve them,” Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn writes in an e-mail. “This was very much a group effort, and I don’t think Luke had more input on the purposes and goals of the proposed program than anybody else on the committee.”It is perhaps too easy to pin specific aspects of the report on Menand. After all, he is, along with Simmons, one of the members of the committee whose academic...
...committee should continually and proactively evaluate courses both to determine whether they can satisfy a general education requirement and whether they meet the pedagogical standards to be listed as a “general education” course. It should also be more active in soliciting student and faculty input on which existing courses might satisfy a general education requirement. The current system usually requires a professor to submit an application to the CSC, which places too high of a burden on professors and leads to too few Core classes. The new committee should seek out potential general education courses...
...terms of people I talk with, sometimes negotiations on sensitive matters with members of Congress; the advice I give the President. So I don't talk a lot about the kind of advice I give the President, and sometimes the conversations I have with foreign leaders. I make my input quietly. I don't carry a high profile in the press...