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...courses for general education credit. But McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 expressed concern that too many departmental courses would be used to satisfy general education requirements.“I think we’re sort of buying a pig in a poke here,” Lewis said, suggesting that the Faculty was accepting the proposal without a full understanding of its basis. “If people are imagining that 9 out of 10 courses will fit somewhere, then this entire curriculum is reduced to distributive requirements,” Lewis...
...night. Tutors usually go to bed—get ready for this—before midnight. You’re probably asking, “How can these people finish their papers, play a few matches of Halo on Xbox, grab late night Felipe’s, and poke all of their crushes on Facebook before midnight? Well it turns out that tutors don’t lead similar lives to us college students, and that is exactly why they won’t be pleased when they unintentionally overhear you at 2 a.m. raving about your sexual misadventures...
...swears he loved Annenberg’s food, maybe someday Rich will reveal aspects of his college experience that he wasn’t so fond of. As in “Ant Farm,” many of Rich’s jokes come from his ability to poke fun at himself, or, at least for now, his middle school self.“I think middle school is a really good source for jokes, probably for most people,” Rich says. “It was humiliating. I feel like I’ve just...
...panacea against the reputed urban ills of the university’s setting in West Philadelphia, a locality that is probably more familiar to college students as the crime-addled birthplace of the Fresh Prince of Belair. During our annual pissing match with Yale, Harvard students love to poke fun at New Haven’s unsafe reputation. As far as perceptions are concerned, Harvard doesn’t have much more big city excitement to boast than does Princeton, whose glee club sings that, “Nothing ever happens in Princeton/Of the real world...
...record calling for him to step down. And his disfavor is far more widespread. One senior G.O.P. aide calls Gonzales, "by objective measures a crony," and says, "We want it over." Minority Whip Trent Lott thinks Gonzales should stay, but says, "It's not good and the Democrats will poke at it for all it's worth...