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...Masters. This change in management (as the outgoing Dean of Freshman Elizabeth Studley Nathans currently answers to Deputy Dean O’Brien) suggests better coordination between the Houses and the Yard. Even if the College does not implement Yale-style freshman housing assignments—which we firmly oppose??this administrative change could be useful in working to bridge the gap between freshmen and upperclassmen. Under the current structure of anachronistic proctors and irregular faculty advising assignments, guidance for freshman is decidedly hit or miss—with the misses accounting for an unacceptable majority. The appointment...
...creating fellowships for outstanding TFs and making short training courses in evaluating student work mandatory for grad-student teachers. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby also believes that instituting a system of preregistration—an unpopular ogre of a policy that we fiercely oppose??might improve the general quality of TFs. None of these policies or proposals is a real solution to uneven TF teaching...
...will study abroad. Government concentrators, with a more manageable 10-14 required credits, enjoy a more flexible curriculum and could be more apt to spend a semester abroad. Even if the College goes forth with the proposed 12-credit cap on requirements—a move we oppose??some concentration requirements, like those of Engineering Sciences, would not be affected by the cap due to national standards for the BS degree...
...semester ends before winter break seems increasingly like a foregone conclusion—even if many of us still vigorously question the logic. But moving fall finals is not as simple as starting the year earlier and condensing reading period—both aspects of the proposal we strongly oppose??it will also free up the entire month of January. And at Harvard, no time can be wasted in idleness...
Chopra says many professors have told him that they “privately oppose?? the proposal...