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Eggers, who will be giving a reading at the concert, catapulted into the ranks of hipster icons after the 2000 publication of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand called the part-memoir, part-novel the “MTV” version of “The Catcher and the Rye” in an article in The New Yorker...
Simmons, who co-chaired a task force that released the final report on the recently-approved general education program that will replace the Core Curriculum, follows in the footsteps of Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, who announced earlier this month that he is taking next year...
...Menand was the other co-chair of the Harvard Task Force on General Education, the committee that revamped an earlier General Education proposal...
...little apprehensive about implementation—whether we are going to have enough courses, whether it gets watered down,” Menand admitted...
...According to Menand and Simmons, the Core program suffers from two main problems: its inflexibility and its inability to provide a clear explanation for why some courses fulfil general education requirements and others...