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...calendar were approved twice by the Faculty Council, but were shot down both times after being passed on to the entirety of the faculty.Ironically, the seminal catalyst for calendar reform, the cost of energy, has been reduced to inconsequence. The UC announced as part of its 26-page report on the issue that the total energy savings of calendar reform would amount to a measly $200,000.This time around, advocates are focusing on students’ bottom lines instead of the College’s. Today’s UC has forged a coalition with the Woodbridge Society for International...
...example, when you peruse CNN.com’s Education home page, the prominently-featured links often send readers to a Harvard-angled story. This speaks to a widespread media notion that people desire any Harvard news as opposed to important Harvard news. Is our curricular review really that interesting to an outsider...
...rejected such a system when the original committees charged with conducting a review of Harvard’s general education system proposed it over a year ago. Objections raised ranged from it being too vague to it not being able to “put Harvard on the front page of The New York Times,” according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. True enough. A distribution requirement isn’t a particularly inspiring statement on general education, nor even a particularly intellectually satisfying one. But it does retain the advantages...
...Friday, students filled out a one-page survey, which included questions such as how many drinks the respondent typically indulges in over the course of a night. After completing the questionnaire, students participated in individual consultations with members of the Bureau of Study Counsel and UHS, in which they discussed their responses...
...amid the barrage of criticism that followed its termination - indeed, parts of it had been leaking into the media for days. Still, even Israel's jaded commentariat found the tone of the report surprisingly harsh. Some derivation of the word "failure" appears several times on almost every page of the release...