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...When administrators refused to distribute the UC’s calendar proposal to the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences via e-mail, Petersen submitted an official request asking that the Commission of Inquiry—a relic of Vietnam-era student activism that hadn’t been assembled in nearly 20 years—be convened. (The request was dropped...
...Stationed as they are beside an inflatable figure of a boxer, a couple of cardboard boxes, and some old posters of UC-sponsored events featuring Chris Rock and Adam Sandler, they hardly appear to be anything except another bit of refuse, a relic of a hasty move-in. But to the members of the UC, these binders are the archives, and—with the UC currently in its 25th session—some of them are verging on a quarter-of-a-century...
...strong opposition from students and administrators kept University Hall from randomizing the lottery for another 14 years, and members of the Class of 1982 largely praise a housing system that many now view as a relic of an unwelcome Harvard...
...meetings have ended, the smoke is white, and Harvard College has a brand new curriculum. The infamous Core Curriculum, a relic of the last Bok administration, has finally been sent to its demise and in its place will stand a new general education system...
Even among soi-disant “progressives,” the idea of progress is out of vogue these days, either written off as a relic of the Enlightenment or denounced as a canard of Western imperialism. For a bygone older generation, the myth of progress perished with Hiroshima: It symbolized the advent of a world in which our scientific intelligence had become tragically commensurate to our most vicious appetites...