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...Classics Department, for example, plans to offer just one secondary field program, which it voted to call “Classical Civilization.” The proposal recommends requiring five half-courses, one of which must be either Classics 97a or 97b, according to Jan M. Ziolkowski, Porter Professor of Medieval Latin. Students may pick the remaining four half-courses from all those offered in the Classics section of the Course of Instruction, including Core courses and other cross-listed courses. Ziolkowski added that no more than two half-courses may be below the level of Greek or Latin...
...Roger Porter is obsessed with lists...
...problem, though, is that “The American Presidency” is almost totally bereft of substantial content. Porter says his class is not about presidents, but rather about the structure of the presidency (Don’t expect to learn anything at all about the lives or accomplishments of any of the presidents). That’s okay. But since he handles everything in such an outline-ish manner, you retain very little and all the lectures blend together...
Each of them starts with one of his trademark stories about his adventures in D.C. (Porter served on the White House staffs of Ford, Reagan and Bush I). The tales are warm, fuzzy and often nauseating. He can talk for half an hour about how George Bush once let him borrow a polo shirt...
...lottery for this class is handled could also make you want to throw up. Porter and Head TF Carlos Diaz both hail from Dunster House (Porter is the housemaster and Diaz is the acting senior tutor). Students they know are almost guaranteed to get a spot...