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...faith.” The report, for example, conspicuously neglects to recommend that students receive a firm grounding in the basic principles of economics. It is difficult to see how a general education curriculum will prepare “students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society?? without giving them a basic understanding of markets. The lack of emphasis in the report on the hard sciences and mathematics—a student could conceivably graduate barely having glanced at any numbers—also raises grave concerns, as these subjects are becoming increasingly applicable. While...
...doing so, the new report presents a coherent philosophy—tying liberal education to life outside the university and the challenges of a modern, globalized society??that eschews the previously-proposed distributional requirements that received lackluster support from professors...
...recipients were selected from a pool of 500 nominees. Van Valkenburgh and his firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, are receiving the award for a seven-year landscaping plan at Wellesley College. The firm is in the midst of redesigning 13.5 acres of the Wellesley campus. According to the society??s website, the plan involves the restoration of the campus’s Alumnae Valley—for the last several years a parking lot—to its former natural landscape and function as part of a natural hydrological system. The firm removed tons of toxic soil...
Throughout the course of any given night, these otherwise upstanding members of society??who likely preside over three organizations and manage to maintain a 4.0 GPA—might, in a chemically induced haze, lose their I.D., hook up with six varsity athletes, and polish off the night with a memorable (if not remembered) high-speed police chase. The following morning, these students manage to arrive to class on time, looking preppy and sporting a few unidentifiable injuries, only to take thorough notes and engage in meaningful conversation with their professor after class. All in a day?...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Mohammad Hafezi, a member of the Harvard Persian Society??s executive board and a native of Iran, said that he was “very happy” to have Khatami at Harvard...