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...getting smaller and smaller," says Smith, "people don't want to leave the house. The audience is being trained that they don't have to run out to the theater to see something." For many viewers, especially adults, the kids who see the big blockbusters and the critics who review the little indie films have essentially become focus groups that help them decide whether they should see a movie--when it comes...
...that University President Lawrence H. Summers is on his way out, one would hope that the secret meetings to determine the course of the curricular review and to discuss concerns about Summers would be things of the past. Instead, faculty members seem unable (or unwilling) to articulate their actual grievances with Summers or explain the motivation behind the HCCR. In lieu of clarity, we have closed door sessions; instead of open discussion of the troubles facing the Faculty, we have accusations of anti-Semitism...
...into the thought process that supposedly guides the HCCR (and why should they have? They’re hidden away on the Facutly of Arts and Sciences website). It’s too bad the ideas in these essays have not translated into a meaningful guiding philosophy for the review or that students are scarcely aware they exist. Instead, we are left with a set of flaccid administrative reforms rather than innovative ideas that indicate, as Professor Julie Buckler writes, “the next step in the evolution of our own thinking, and not as a break from past...
...support the HCCR’s proposals, stand up, raise your hand, and tell us why we should go there with you. And if you don’t, then let’s start again and craft a groundbreaking review of which we can be proud. Otherwise, the HCCR will be a beebee gun bullet shot out of a cannon...
...first and biggest step toward improving advising at the College requires assigning incoming freshmen to upperclass houses before they arrive at Harvard and giving each freshman entryway a House affiliation. When the 2004 Curricular Review report recommended such a change to Harvard’s housing policy, it presumed that the benefits to advising from pre-assignment would consist of improved freshman access to the House tutor system—a wrong-headed argument if ever there was one. Critics rightly argued that House advisors are stretched thin across this campus and that the added load would fill the tutor...