Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The problems with the current system come from all sides. Logistically, sections in the core are often overcrowded and undersupplied. Though professors and teaching fellow believe that 15 students should be the maximum, many sections now top 20 students. This size largely defeats the purpose of sections. Professor Larry D...
"There are constant lines to use the Stairmasters and the other equipment unless you get here early in the morning or late at night," says Graduate School of Education student Parisa Muller as she waits to use a Stairmaster. "And the aerobics classes are always overcrowded."
In fact, a two-month Crimson investigation found that many undergraduates are alienated by the core's entire structure, which limits student choice and result in overcrowded sections and lectures.
Trey Grayson '94 says his TF in Moral Reasoning22 "tried" to make an overcrowded section work.
"It was a lot easier for dominant people totake over. Up to 75 percent of the students nevertalked," says Kimberly A. Williams '95 of theearly, overcrowded weeks of her Literature andArts A-24 section. "Easily half the class wouldn'tspeak."