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...English 10a (141 students). Those students who would prefer a 15-person Great Books seminar as opposed to, by way of example, an 11-person offering on “The Female Body in Modern America” are typically out of luck.Yale has solved this problem already. That school??s application-required Directed Studies program offers freshmen the opportunity to take three, year-long general education courses in literature, philosophy, and history and politics. The course is taught entirely in small seminars, and prominent faculty sign up for the same reason they teach freshmen seminars here?...
Okrent started his job at the Times in the midst of “widespread skepticism” in the newsroom about the necessity of a public editor, said Adam Nagourney, a political correspondent for the paper who was a fellow at the Kennedy School??s Institute of Politics this fall. Nagourney—himself a target of a 2004 Okrent column criticizing the Times’ coverage of the Howard Dean campaign—said much of that skepticism evaporated by the end of Okrent’s tenure...
...After weathering the initial week of trouble, Mass. Hall set its sights on the next obvious hurdle: the previously scheduled monthly meeting of the Faculty on Feb. 15, 2005. Summers had three weeks to counter the growing and potentially devastating discontent among the school??s professors before they would meet...
...uncool to talk about SATs. We’re embarrassed to even say where we go to school when asked, instead trying for “oh, a school in Boston.” Yet at sporting events we have no problem chanting “safety school?? or “Where is Lehigh?” GQ Magazine noticed and named Harvard in the top 10 for worst fans. We should be ashamed.3. Bank haters. With the seemingly endless procession of new money machines and smiling tellers, some have bemoaned the Square’s loss...
...blog The Huffington Post, brainchild of former California gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington. The trouble is that certain issues tend to get magnified by this bunch, and others suppressed. One minor but standout example was pointed out in frustration this past October by Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard Law School??s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society and a well known blogger and activist who focuses on issues of technological development in some of the poorer countries in Africa. In late October a small group of NYU students led a protest in New York outside...