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...members of Congress,’” he recalled. “’I know you really want to do this, but you can’t do it today.’”—Staff writer Abe J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Riesman is a Social Studies concentrator in Quincy House. He is not the only Jew at Harvard...
...clinical depression in such a frank, open way that you’d be heartless if you didn’t feel a deep, cathartic belly laugh rise from your guts. Catch her before she’s famous.PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 0.5%—Staff writer Abe J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu...
...ways of building support that bridge ideological disagreement,” he said. —Staff writer Abraham J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu
Since 1969, Brown University’s New Curriculum has fostered the kind of academic freedom Professor Riesman and others had hoped for at Harvard. Brown allows students to have courses letter-graded or non-letter graded, with a Satisfactory/No Credit option. Through this open curriculum, Brown aims to prioritize “intellectual growth rather than the static transmission of knowledge”—essentially, a broad and curious academic perspective. Admittedly, Brown’s intellectual ethos is historically very different from Harvard’s, but we could nonetheless learn from its exploration-focused, open...