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...PLoS), I was appalled by your editorial, “Keep Science in Print” in which you condemn our new journal PLoS One. The article is too ill-informed and riddled with factual inaccuracies to be taken seriously as an attack on our efforts to rejuvenate peer review by opening up the process to all members of the scientific community. I would normally feel compelled to correct all these errors, but fortunately I don’t have to. Perhaps sensing the opportunity for delicious irony, the “hoi polloi that roam the Internet?...
It’s unreasonable to lay the blame for the dead air on the majority of undergraduates. Given that the curricular review has droned on for as long as most of us have been enrolled here, the lack of interest is understandable. But neither the duration of the review nor undergraduate apathy can excuse the inactivity of this campus’ leaders, who have made practically no effort to make the proposed reforms relevant for most Harvard students...
...process. Since its release, the draft has had more of an impact on campus paper waste than on students’ thinking, simply because nothing has been done to mobilize student opinion. There has not been another forum, no response from UC leaders, no roundtable discussions. The curricular review may be old news, but these recommendations could well be voted into reality soon. If we don’t have our say now, we will miss our chance to shape the future of Harvard’s undergraduate education...
...should we be engaged with the curricular review when we are all supposedly likely to have graduated before it comes into existence? For one thing, the implementation of the new curriculum will surely be gradual—because a quarter of Harvard’s undergraduate population changes each year, there can be no single moment to roll out the new program in its entirety. As a consequence, the classes of 2009 and 2010 will likely see their requirements change. Also, if the new curriculum is approved, what to do with the old Core requirements until the new ones...
...Democrats win, found himself embroiled in a real estate scandal. On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that Reid had failed properly to report a land deal in his home state of Nevada that nearly tripled his initial investment in six years. Reid has asked the Senate ethics committee for review...