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...that would equip students with the tools they needed to engage fully in a meritocratic society.While the new Gen Ed proposal eschews anything even remotely like a core set of knowledge, its goals are similar to those of the Red Book’s. “Harvard should seek...to inspire its students to become active and engaged citizens” reads the report. This is a citizenship based on the post-9/11—not post-Pear Harbor—world situation that necessitates an understanding of American culture, foreign cultures, and religions...
Pataki has said he will not seek a fourth term as governor. The Gordon lectures, established in 1987, honor the 105-year-old investor Albert H. Gordon...
...soliciting student and faculty input on which existing courses might satisfy a general education requirement. The current system usually requires a professor to submit an application to the CSC, which places too high of a burden on professors and leads to too few Core classes. The new committee should seek out potential general education courses, rather than the reverse...
...common objection is that student choice will digress into a mindless pursuit of an easy A. This claim is ill-founded. Students already seek out easy core classes, and lower workloads do not necessarily translate into inferior classes. An extra chapter of reading or a problem set per week doesn’t mean that the course will affect the way the student views the world in a greater...
...leaders talk about the need for a "new strategy," but neither is willing to publicly commit to a definitive plan - also known by the more politically perjorative phrase "timetable" - for getting U.S. troops out. In the Washington Post today, Richard Holbrooke argues for Bush to "disengage" from Iraq and seek a political compromise there, but rules out "a fixed timetable for U.S. withdrawal, since it would give away any remaining American flexibility and leverage...