Word: option
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...term or a year off while at Harvard will continue to be fairly significant. Whether, as in the case of Ann-Marie Moeller, the economy will force students from low and middle income backgrounds to try and get through as quickly as possible, and leave years off an option available only to the wealthy, remains to be seen.ANN-MARIE MOELLER...
Byker summarized his feelings about dropping the course this way: "The first time the committee spoke about it, I was in favor of keeping the journalism option. But after a while, I saw that if we did keep it, we would gain about six benefits and six debits. So I didn't press the matter. I didn't have any complaints with the standing committee's decision to drop...
...very quiet and unpublicized move last winter, Donald Byker, assistant director of Expository Writing, cropped from Harvard's only required course an option which some believe to have been one of the finest and most rigorous basic writing programs in the University. Student course evaluations had been good and Byker had never expressed any dissatisfaction with the course. So when he handed the three teachers of Expos 14, "Editorial, Feature, and News Writing," letters notifying them that the journalism course was being eliminated from the curriculum, it came as a surprise...
There are two catches in Byker's argument concerning the absence of a full-time teacher. First of all, the journalism option last year was limited to four sections by the decision of Byker and the Faculty Committee on expository writing. They made that decision even though there were 150 freshmen--enough to fill over eight sections--who requested journalism as their first-choice option. Then when the committee decided this year it would only hire full-time teachers for options with eight or more sections, the journalism section was forced to dissolve...
...July Byker asserted that the journalism option didn't fit the expos mold. He now says that opinion reflected the views of the expos Faculty committee. He says it is a view that he does not share...