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...discipline necessary to maintain the military threaten our coveted sense of individuality; the brute spectacle of war comes as an affront to the practice of reasoned discourse that we strive so seriously to perfect. War as a whole might be avoided, we muse in the academic comfort of a seminar room, if only everyone would read Habermas...
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz also appeared before the council last night, addressing a number of issues, including the Freshman Seminar Program, the Core Curriculum, grade inflation and study abroad...
Within a year of her tenure, Pederson worked with Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles to nearly double the offerings of the Freshman Seminar program from 33 to 62 courses, greatly increasing the ability of first-years to build meaningful relationships with members of the Faculty...
...next year I chose a seminar with an extremely nice visiting professor who had the soul of a poet and the backbone of a garden slug. I was surprised to get back one particularly shoddy essay with the final mark of “A.” At first I rationalized the grade, deciding that my work must have stood out because the seminar included several legendary stoners. One of them, known to his peers as the Bazooka (because he was often heavily loaded), differed from Bill Clinton in that he had never actually exhaled. But at semester?...
...despite its best intentions, MBB has fallen short of expectations. In some years, the initiative represents little more than a mish-mash of professors from different departments who come together infrequently to attend seminars they promptly forget. As a former MBB student, I attended the mandatory junior seminar program at the beginning of this year where one professor laughed in my face when I asked whether any collaborative research across department lines was being attempted as a result of the program. This isn’t to say that the program doesn’t have potential; however, its true...