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...said that they had already heard most of Tuesday’s criticisms in smaller meetings with other committees and departments. “We’ve had a lot of converts,” Menand said. Simmons said that the control faculty members now feel over the review process contributed to Tuesday’s productive debate. “There had been a lot of suspicion about the administration and its role, but now it really feels like the curriculum is in the hands of the faculty,” Simmons said. “It feels...
...curricular review is the perfect opportunity to do something about this epidemic. The Faculty seems ready to adopt the premise espoused by the Task Force on General Education—that Harvard must educate global citizens for the 21st century. It is difficult to see how the College might be able to accomplish these goals without considering the role of public speaking in general education. Yet, public speaking was only mentioned once in the Task Force’s report—in the context of expository writing—and no concrete recommendations were made on how to incorporate...
Fortunately, the curricular review’s Committee to Review the Teaching of Writing and Speaking made recommendations to remedy the situation. The committee advocated adding course offerings in public speaking, debate, and oral argument and integrating oral assignments and instruction into c urrent courses. The report also advocated hiring professors to teach these courses and the creation of a writing and speaking center to integrate and streamline Harvard’s scattered resources on these subjects...
...that his son is actually safe and that it’s his chauffeur’s child who is at risk. Does he pay the ransom?The film is gritty—as New York Times critic A. O. Scott ’88 put it in a review, “It’s full of gamey details and a kind of sleazy anxious sweaty mood.”Mifune’s performance perfectly balances traditional Japanese restraint and righteous anger at the deplorable morality both of his business partners and of the ransomers.I hesitate...
With faculty debate on the curricular review officially underway, students on the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) say that they plan to spend the next month gathering opinion on the review from their peers. Undergraduates will be invited to attend dinner discussions with student members of the CUE, according to committee member Tracy E. Nowski ’07. Students will meet in small groups with the committee twice in December for a total of three hours to create “continuous conversations” between undergraduates and CUE members, Nowski said. “You can barely scratch...