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...agreed on the need to reexamine and ultimately reform our own institutional practices, from how we teach introductory courses to the inexorability of the tenure clock in order to make academic careers attractive to exceptionally talented scholars from all backgrounds,” Gutmann wrote in an e-mail...
Beginning at midnight this Sunday, students will be able to evaluate courses online anytime before May 18. The switch to a paperless system marks a key moment in the reform of the evaluation process underway in the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), including a re-examination of evaluation questions themselves...
Every year, I’m amused to see what new clubs have sprung up. There’s Freeze Magazine and the James Bond Film Society and the Give-Red-Man-an-Oscar Club (also known as the Harvard Coalition for Drug Policy Reform). But even with the rapidly expanding list of organizations here at Harvard, there are still gaping holes in our student group roster. One club I personally would like to see is the Color Blind Students Association (CBSA...
...Communist insurgency, the President has the upper hand. As an incumbent with virtually dictatorial powers, he can set the rules under which the election will be conducted. Indeed, the 200-seat National Assembly, where Marcos' ruling New Society Movement enjoys a two-thirds majority, last week passed an election reform bill stipulating that district and village officials, many of whom are loyal to Marcos, will oversee the polling. Under constitutional constraint to resign before participating in new elections, Marcos submitted a letter of resignation that would take effect ten days after the votes are counted and a winner proclaimed...
...such future-gazing is vital. To a medium-sized country like Australia, China's economic and political rise seems irresistible. The two countries have been been growing closer for some three decades, since Australia gave diplomatic recognition to the communist People's Republic in 1972. China's growth and reform have continued with barely a blip since 1978. But trade and the movement of people go back a lot further, as Fu Ying, China's Ambassador to Australia, notes. "The history, habits and nature of our peoples have laid the foundations for the extension of relations," she says...