Word: sections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside the classroom, a crowd of about 30 sophomores gathered to argue with two section leaders for the course, which had never been lotteried before. They had shopped no other courses, and didn't know what to put on their study cards...
...absolute requirement would be that [alottery] is announced ahead of time," says AndreiSmrekar, head section leader for "Modern Art." The"Modern Art" class, popularly known as Spots andDots, has always held a lottery...
...reasoning seems strange. What criteria, one wonders, are used to categorize Core courses as "freshman-sophomore" courses? Level of difficulty, perhaps? Number of required readings? And isn't the Core supposed to be a section of the curriculum that permits any student to take any course offered, regardless of year? That priority seems to have gotten lost somewhere...
...hope for finding a growing re-acceptance of "popular" culture--the underlying purpose of these histories which look back to a brief American utopia--Levine overstates his case. For example, he explicitly praises the New York Times for its Sunday "Arts and Leisure" section's broad definition of "art," failing to recognize the subtle discrimination that goes on in those pages. Namely, that rock, jazz and "popular" music are written about in the "Recordings" page, while "classical" music appears under the simple heading "Music." This is but one example of how cultural distincitons still exist, and Levine fails to hold...
...NOTEBOOK: Penn's Cheryl Rath became the Quaker's all-time leading scorer when she hit a three-pointer in the first half. Rath now has 1204 points during her Penn career...Harvard shot 54 percent from the field...Penn shot 41 percent...Penn's media guide contains a section on players interests. Guard Kathy Boden's interests include tropical fish...The Crimson looks to extend its winning Ivy ways when it travels to Yale and Brown this weekend...