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Spending senior week waking up at five a.m. was not exactly what I had in mind when I imagined the fun, carefree days that would be the culmination of my senior spring. Staying out until five—that was possible. Waking up at five was simply tragic...
...December 10, 1996, Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor nearly died. As a result of a cerebral hemorrhage, the left lobe of her brain was wiped out, causing her mind to lose most of its analytical functions...
...Faculty, the University community in general, and a good portion of the national press have already said all there is to say about Harvard’s grand educational experiment. This satiation must not dissuade the Faculty, however, from reevaluating the infamous set of undergraduate requirements with an open mind. While the Faculty is clearly unlikely to completely dismantle a program so painstakingly and expensively built up, the group should take this opportunity to make some much-needed adjustments. We have long maintained that, for all its success in revitalizing the tottering General Education structure, creating interesting new courses...
Another potential concern is that the prevalence of economics reflects pre-professionalism instead of the liberal arts ideal of intellectual inquiry. Never mind that Harvard started out largely as a pre-professional school (the profession then was being a Protestant minister). Some students may choose economics because they believe it is good preparation for a business career, but the department’s courses emphasize economics as an intellectual pursuit. This is an annoyance for some students, but in our view the right approach for a liberal arts university...
When President Reagan began his trip to Latin America last week, he said he was going “with an open mind, to listen and to learn.” But when he returned to Washington five days later, Reagan remained as set and predictable in his ways as he was before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism. The real problems of Latin America—the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different...