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Then a hideous green monster appeared and threw the realm into chaos. Handsome princes were mocked, damsels saved themselves, and ogres and dragons were shown to be decent folks once you got to know them...
...despite leading UC executives to believe otherwise.To remedy such unfortunate situations, students should be added to all committees that affect the student experience so that at the very least their perspective will be aired. Such a system has already been successful where it has been tried. In the academic realm, student representation on the Task Force on General Education added an important, if not crucial perspective on pedagogy. By all accounts student representation on bodies like the Educational Policy Committee, the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Committee on the Core Curriculum have led to similar results. And yet students...
...mostly. The 1960s civil rights movement had swept away official racism in the U.S., along with the last anti-miscegenation laws. But word had evidently not yet reached the Chais' corner of South Dakota-a bleak, windswept realm of farming and ranching, where rising interest rates and falling prices for agricultural goods were pushing many of their neighbors toward bankruptcy. "My father didn't realize that he was moving his family into a region whose economic base was, in fact, being devastated," says Chai. That economic anxiety, plus growing unrest among Native Americans on nearby Indian reservations, only deepened...
...late 2006, the task force charged with overhauling Harvard’s Core curriculum dropped “reason and faith” from its proposed list of general education courses, sending a very poignant message to the entire student body: religious debate does not belong in the realm of an undergraduate education...
...Until that day comes, however, the realm of science will most likely remain the main site of religious and academic intersection for many observant Harvard students...