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...along with the new calendar in 2009-2010. Debate focused on the purpose of a J-term, its logistics, and possible classes. Harris, a Jewish studies professor, emphasized that unlike existing winter terms at MIT, Dartmouth, and Oberlin, the “J-term will be completely and totally optional??if students want to stay home for five weeks and do nothing, that’s a great thing.” Potential offerings Harris suggested included the practical—classes on PowerPoint; the less conventional—such as metalsmithing; and the academic—introductory...
...prohibited students from releasing their grades to employers. This arrangement helps both parties by lowering grade pressure on students, contributing to a collegial, cooperative environment that HBS has adopted as central to its academic mission. Recently, the administration of HBS has expressed interest in making it “optional?? for students to release their grades. This interest must not blossom into policy. Making grade release optional will not solve any of HBS's current problems with academic rigor. Moreover, the administration should be censured for trying to ram through this change without the input of HBS students...
...particular issue is whether a $10 fee to pay the premium for such energy—mandatory or optional??should be placed on students’ term bills, and whether, if optional, such a fee should be one that students pay only by checking a box on their bill (“opt-in”), or pay by default with the opportunity not to pay, again by checking a box (“opt-out?...
...that very important reason that we feel this fee should be optional??so as to provide the EAC with a mandate to sway the administration. But the question of whether to make the fee “opt-out” or “opt-in” is more complicated. The proposal’s backers called for an opt-out charge, arguing that an opt-in fee would under-represent students who support the initiative since only those students who noticed to check the box would do so. On the other hand, making...
...body of “integrative, foundational courses” known as the Harvard College Courses will replace the Core, but these will be optional??students will also be able to fulfill their general education requirements with regular departmental classes...