Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were trying to facilitate communication. It was an information vehicle," said Sutiawati Hokiarto, director of sponsorship and finance for the conference and a HBS first-year. "Right now there are a lot of things going on in Asia. We want to get the perspective from the micro level...
...with the professed reason for randomization. When attempting to diversify our communities, did the administration try to bring different groups of undergraduates together in a common space, perhaps in an intercultural center, or even more broadly, a building devoted to undergraduate office space? Most emphatically not. Almost every high-level administrator vigorously opposes the creation of an intercultural center, just as they have for the past 25 years. Instead, they chose randomization, further splitting apart the different groups of students...
...Core courses. An exceptional instructor might succeed in such a situation, but Harvard professors tend to be exceptional scholars more than exceptional instructors. More importantly, regardless of how enthusiastic she is, the professor of a large Core course cannot interact with her students on a personal and meaningful level. This job is then left to the teaching fellows, and for these enormous classes, many section leaders are needed; this begets another problem...
...usually more meaningful and intellectually stimulating than Core courses. And if they go ahead and take concentration classes anyway, they do double duty in the Core and suffer because of it. Example: In my first year, I took an English departmental course, and last year I took a 90-level English seminar. This fall, I was presented with the useless duty of taking a Literature and Arts A course. I did, and it paled in comparison to either of the other two--in scope, breadth and approach to knowledge...
...stage was set for Durbin's heroics. Wrestling this night at the heavyweight level, Durbin used his superior quickness to earn a 10-5 decision over Hofstra's Anthony Casciano in the final match. The senior's victory and three points gave Harvard...