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...proposed overhaul of the College’s Core curriculum released last week has already mollified several outspoken Faculty critics of the four-year-old attempt to update Harvard’s general education requirements—and professors said the plan stands a strong chance of gaining the full Faculty’s approval in the coming months...
While some professors say the review leaves scant space for literature and the arts, and others suggested it tries too hard to be a response to the 9/11 attacks, the current proposal has met a much warmer reception than previous Core overhaul plans...
Even advising experts need advisers. Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere will steer forward the overhaul of Harvard’s advising system this year, flanked by a bevy of advising bodies. In addition to counsel from the year-old Student Advisory Board, the dean will receive student input from “community fellows”—representatives of the Peer Advising Fellows (PAF) program who will attend monthly meetings with Rinere’s office, according to an e-mail from the program’s manager, Brooks Lambert-Sluder ’05. There...
...stays silent; a new UC could express the general student spirit and opinion. At the same time, the UC would be less radical than the various self-selecting campus interest groups, who would depend upon the UC as a reliable gateway to the administration. Of course, such a drastic overhaul of campus politics cannot happen within the current system of elections. Although making Houses “electoral districts” is a great idea, the problem lies in the fact that representatives are elected individually. For instance, there is no communication among candidates to create a common plan...
...Barack Obama) who is trying to unseat Mark Kirk, the three-term Republican representative from Illinois' 10th Congressional District, in the city's tony North Shore suburbs. To the Americans in Europe, Seals was pitch-perfect, insisting that "Rumsfeld needs to go" and saying that it was time to overhaul energy policies, since "we are putting billions of tax dollars into supporting the oil companies...