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...Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) recommended that freshmen be assigned to their upperclass Houses before their arrival at the College. Freshman entryways would be configured along House lines and freshmen would be included in House life as soon as they arrived on campus. The response from many, including this page, was dismay. Calls for what was has become known as Yale-style housing were ridiculed as foolish and counterproductive. The scheme, many claimed, would deprive freshmen of their right to choose the group of friends with whom they would live as upperclassmen. Class unity would be jeopardized, and those freshmen...
When the Vatican wrongly left Israel off a list of countries that had recently suffered at the hands of terrorists, it was front-page news, and more than a few accusations of anti-Semitism were leveled. Major news outlets brought up the always touchy subject of Christianitys long-troubled relationship with Judaism, and demands were made for an official apology from the Vatican. Why, then, was this divestment attemptwhich Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center correctly labeled as functionally anti-Semiticbarely even covered...
...Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam for his outlandishly priced $464.50 coursepack. Going back to the drawing board, Putnam instructed his assistants compiling next year’s coursepack to scour Harvard’s electronic resources. The result? After a few weeks of effort, the same 1000 page coursepack is now priced under $200. If only other professors would catch...
...rising costs of textbooks. Professors help keep textbook prices high by requiring students to carry the most recent editions and by changing textbooks wholesale when taking over a course. New editions and new textbooks destroy the used textbook market, even though new editions often do little more than change page numbers to render previous editions obsolete. Professors must make their courses compatible with the current and previous editions of textbooks to save students money, even for courses that draw their problem sets from the texts. And new professors must weigh carefully the benefits of switching textbooks...
...help in this complicated endeavor, a page should be added to the already excellent Harvard Libraries e-resources website explaining the many ways TFs and professors can use the vast resources Harvard already owns to lower costs for its students. Course heads shouldn’t have to rely on anecdotes for cost-cutting tips...