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...Opening up the Core and Gen Ed requirements and extending the deadline for making the pass/fail versus letter-grading choice will lower the invisible barrier many students place in front of venturing outside their academic comfort zones. There is no substitute for students’ willingness to embrace the challenges and risks of exploring new fields, but there is also no reason Harvard should not have academic policies that encourage...

Author: By Melissa Q. Mccreery | Title: The Intimidation Barrier | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard’s faculty members have consistently failed to hold up their end of the bargain. The vast majority can’t be bothered to attend Faculty meetings, so much so that when administrators attempted to lower the level of attendance required for quorum earlier this year, they were prevented from doing so because they lacked the quorum necessary to change the rules...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: The Plot Against Harvard | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Trojan Condoms. Quickly, however, the specter of conflict began to hover over student life.When students copying ISBN numbers for the textbook website Crimsonreading.org had the police called on them by the Harvard Coop, it shed light on the larger issue of the University’s unwillingness to lower textbook costs. Professors should take the trouble to put ISBN numbers on syllabi, making the Coop copiers’ “illegal” activities redundant. In addition, the administration’s reluctance to lend a hand to Crimsonreading.org must stop. The Coop exists in order to benefit...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Kramer has never received lower than 4.6 in Q ratings since fall...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Young Tenured Profs Shine in Research and Classroom | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...crowd had come to the rally at the Baruch College gymnasium in lower Manhattan to hear a victory story, not a valediction. They loved her as she strode in to the strains of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and loved her as she departed to Tina Turner's "Simply the Best." Her speech was a roller-coaster ride and they hung on every minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Surrender (Yet) for Clinton | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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