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DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, vacation visionary who steered Club Med from beachfront commune to worldwide, multimillion-dollar resort chain; in Paris. The child of Algerian Jews, Trigano fought against the Nazi occupation of France alongside Gerard Blitz, who would later found the trail-blazing retreat business. After the war, Trigano wrote for the communist newspaper L'Humanit? before starting his 30-year career as helmsman of the company that delivered mai tais and tropical sunsets to the world's middle class...
DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, anti-Nazi propagandist who helped develop Club Med into a hedonistic waterside-resort chain; in Paris. A member of the French Resistance, he wrote for a communist paper after the war, later renting tents to the then rustic-themed vacation spots and eventually establishing them as the ultimate sybaritic destinations...
...quite clear what kind of performance is being measured. One possible response is that grades measure "learning." But learning, in the pure sense, is the act of acquiring knowledge. A humanities student taking an introductory chemistry class might "learn" more than his pre-med peers, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a higher grade. Measuring learning requires taking into account a student's knowledge of the subject material at the end of the term and how much it differs from that student's knowledge at the beginning of the term...
Existing scheduling difficulties are similarly exacerbated by the Core. With many Core courses packed into a few popular lecture times, students are often left facing conflicting requirements, especially those natural science concentrators and pre-med students who face morning courses and afternoon labs. This situation often compels students to choose Core classes, not on their merits, but on the basis of whether they fit in the schedule, a dilemma which regularly becomes a crisis for pre-meds concentrating in the humanities...
Joshua I. Weiner '03, a pre-med government concentrator in Leverett House, is a former White House intern, current Institute of Politics Forum Chair and perpetual Saturday Night Live audience member. His column, which will appear on alternate Mondays, will explore the intersection of politics and popular culture, drawing on his unique experiences in both fields...