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Harvard asks many difficult things of first-years. We have to chose courses and decide on a concentration. We have to make responsible decisions and act like adults. We have to suffer through Expos and pass the QRR. Although these tasks are all challenging, they can be done. But putting together blocking groups? Please, be reasonable...
...difficult to understand why Harvard cannot produce thieves who demonstrate at least a modicum of cleverness. Are these students just morons? How can thieves who can pass the QRR and complete a Science A problem set not realize that they should attempt to cover their tracks? How stupid is someone who merely writes checks to themselves from the account of the organization that they are supposed to manage...
...advises undergraduates to take Quantitative Reasoning 10, a course from which many have been exempted, but can be taken for full credit "whether or not you've passed the QRR...
With that in mind, President Rudenstine and Dean Lewis should explore the possibility of a public service requirement for students. This university is all about requirements; if we make students take the QRR until they get it right, we should ask them to give a few hours for their community. Students might simply be required to participate in any number of accredited service programs run by students. This would encourage student groups to create innovative opportunities for students to fulfill their requirements. Or alternatively, service-learning courses could be folded into the curriculum. (My vote would be for Moral Reasoning...
Making the Core more flexible will, of course, create an administrative nightmare. But any changes proposed by the review committee will make life a little more difficult for the administration and faculty. For example, there is talk of making the QRR a course requirement rather than an exam (calm down; nothing's been decided yet) and increasing the number of Core exemptions to compensate...