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Many of the students who were lotteried out of these classes undoubtedly chose the courses initially because of their "gut" status. Even with departmental courses offered as bypasses to the Core, students would still flock to these courses. Offered increased choice, many students will continue to choose the easiest path. While Core reform is needed, we need not weep for the students lotteried out of their precious "guts," and we certainly should not hold the Core responsible for their fates...
Lituma knows--indeed, everyone in the Andes seems to know--that the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, is gaining control in the region. To underscore this point, Vargas Llosa inserts flashes of Sendero violence throughout the early portion of his narrative: the stoning to death of two young French tourists and a prominent ecologist visiting from Lima; the slaughter of a herd of vicunas being raised as a cash crop for the local economy; the invasion of a village in which residents are persuaded to massacre one another...
Still, Lituma does not believe that Shining Path, for all its ferocity, is behind the vanishing of the three men he was supposed to protect. "Does Sendero ever disappear people?" he wonders aloud. "They just kill them and leave their leaflets behind to let everybody know who did it." Instead, the corporal directs his attention to the husband and wife who own the dreary bar where the construction workers gather each night: Dionisio, who, as his name suggests, is a prodigious reveler in his own establishment, and Senora Adriana, who reads palms and is regarded by her customers...
Hyman is forward-looking, and has set the College's weakling student government on a path of meaningful convalescence. There has been a notable lack of scandal and bombast--in its stead, Hyman's administration has been characterized by a low-key, steady build-up of student confidence in and respect for what had been Harvard's most buffoonish comedy of ego and intrigue. Old memories--of offices being broken into, funds illegally transferred and blackmail documents melodramatically exposed at panel discussions--are starting to fade into the dim background buzz of history...
...council has obviously embarked on a new and correct path to legitimacy in the eyes of students. It should capitalize on its momentum and throw its active support behind the recent movement to have departmental bypasses for Core courses. This new project exhibits all the qualities that the U.C. wants to be associated with: it is an issue which directly affects students; there is a large consensus among students for the bypasses; and the issues has real potential for council-sponsored action instead of grand pontification. It is an issue, which if seized upon, will be a further building-block...