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...these allegations fair? Are math and science concentrators really that bogged down with the useless and ephemeral knowledge that the Core forces them to learn? FM sent out a Classics concentrator, the king of all useless and impractical humanities, and told him to find two math/science seniors and quiz them on some basic humanities knowledge. The contestants are Jan M. Cieslikiewicz ’03 and Daniel J. Shevchik ’03, both applied math concentrators. “I think I know a few of these, but not through my Core classes,” Shevchik says after...
...quiz: What’s a convenient way for the administration to fix an unprecedented housing crunch in the upperclass houses without taking the unattractive steps of spending money on new housing or reducing the size of incoming first-year classes...
...quiz number two: When the Department of History decides to grant an absurdly high number of its professors leaves of absence for the 2002-2003 academic year, what’s a great way to get rid of some students to make the dearth of teachers less apparent...
...gear up to take midterm exams, students across the nation have begun to dodge tests of their own. But they aren’t avoiding that routine American history exam or multiplication quiz. Instead, American students are increasingly opting out of taking standardized tests, now mandated by the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind act. These students playing truant are decreasing the number of student standardized test-takers, and casting doubt on the effectiveness of the core mechanism of Bush’s education initiative...
...appear.) In a public conversation with ABC News correspondent Robert Krulwich at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Watson wittily retraced the unfolding of the great event 50 years ago, along with some personal history. Insisting that he was not particularly brilliant, he recalled how, as a 13-year-old radio Quiz Kid, he was knocked off the show after only three appearances by a seven-year-old phenom on the Bible and Shakespeare. At the University of Chicago, which he entered at age 15, he chose biology over physics because, he said, ?I didn?t see any arrogance in biology...