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Preregistration’s proponents say that preregistration would bring major advantages to undergraduates, including better advising and better prepared instructors and teaching fellows (TFs) by obtaining estimates of course enrollments several months early. But students worry that the requirement to obtain the signature of the instructor of every course they wish to add or drop during “shopping week”—preregistration’s promised liberal add/drop period—would limit their freedom to branch out and try unconventional classes...
...requirement to obtain the signature of the professor for every course a student wants to add or drop is a restriction that will limit creativity in course selection, Chopra says...
Saigal agrees that Harvard teaches a valuable approach to life that is tough to obtain outside of a world-class university. “Harvard provides academic exposure to different strains of thought and social exposure to different cultures and personality types,” he says. “International students who have experienced this are thoroughly enriched and are able to understand the academic, social, political and corporate institutions that prevail around the world, and draw upon these in a manner that suits their country best. The ability to make an informed decision, be it in business...
Yesterday, seven same-sex couples had their day in court. The couples had been denied marriage licenses and subsequently sued the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to obtain them. A lower court ruled against them, despite the fact that nothing in Massachusetts state law specifically prohibits same-sex marriages. The couples appealed, and now the Supreme Judicial Court will rule on one of the most contentious marital debates of our time. If the Court decides in favor of the plaintiff, Massachusetts could lead the way in finally ending this discriminatory, outdated constraint of limiting state sanctioned marriage exclusively to heterosexual couples...
...preserving this traditional view of marriage—for the sake of custom—is far less important than preserving the equal rights and opportunities guaranteed to all people under the Constitution. With 4,400 out-of-state couples having already made the trek to Vermont to obtain civil unions, it is clear there is a pressing need to alter our legal interpretations in accord with our changing social customs...