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...with purple cushions, recently moved into the office of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Offices and meeting rooms opened for groups to move in, and the Gilbert and Sullivan performers were one of the first to claim their spot in the new student center, which features brightly lit student group offices along corridors of translucent walls. The club’s president Casey M. Lurtz ’07 said that overall, she was pleased with the new office. “It’s more space than we thought we would get.” Lurtz...
...from the Professor on the true nature of "spirit" would send any sixth grader into a fit of giggles. The reading varies from the light (Chaucer on flatulence) to the heavy (George Herbert on God), and the reading load is very well-paced. While the course does fulfill a Lit and Arts core, the majority of the people in the class are Humanities majors, which makes for excellent sections...
...you’re a science concentrator, you’ll probably be taking this sequence of classes whether you want to or not. But even if you’re a hardcore Lit major who’s only looking to fulfill those pesky Science A and Science B cores, you might enjoy the Life Sciences courses as long as you don’t mind a little more work than, say, a gut like Dinosaurs (Science B-57) might offer. LS1a and LS1b offer a mostly graceful blend of hard science and real-world applications that...
...very little work still scrape by in classes like Science A-47, “Cosmic Connections” and QR 28, “The Magic of Numbers,” a little more effort will result in an easy A or A-. Ditto for your History and Lit and Arts courses. In any event, the key to surviving the Core is planning ahead. It can bring misery to students who panic and take a Core class to fulfill a requirement, registering for whatever fits into their schedule at the last minute. Many Cores have an extremely specific focus...
...Judith Butler. The class also features numerous film screenings. Perhaps the most popular WGS class from last year was WGS 1151, “Sex, Rights, and Stereotypes: Queer Culture In America From Stone Wall to Gay Marriage,” taught by the charismatic Timothy McCarthy of Lit and Arts A-86, “Protest Literature” fame. The course examined queer America through the lens of popular culture. The boys from “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” would be proud. Disappointingly, the course will no longer be offered. The department itself...