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...whole, particularly when institutional decision-making doesn’t affect the narrow sphere of our activities. If the college years truly predict behavior later in life, then our current habit of abdicating our responsibility to discuss and engage in issues that are bigger than ourselves sets the stage for a future of disassociation from democratic society. Incidentally, the signs are beginning to appear already. We of the DotNet generation are more involved in volunteer work and community problem-solving than those who came before us—more invested in our personal connections to civic life?...
...submitted their final reports—an accomplishment that itself occurred nearly three years after the process began. Given the dedication of these committees’ members and the pressing need for change, this year should have been one of thoughtful deliberation and official legislation. But this decisive stage of the curricular review depended on the Faculty’s initiative and leadership, and, regrettably, the Faculty failed to provide either.Most discouragingly, the antiquated Core Curriculum still survives amid universal disapproval, even though the HCCR’s Committee on General Education (CGE) has produced a group of exciting alternatives...
...human relations at Harvard Business School. “That means you can’t get somebody who thinks they can dictate solutions to every problem.”There exist a number of potential candidates who have distinguished themselves in university management, but naming names at this stage of the search is a highly speculative sport. The field, however, is not broad.“Probably, one could write 5-10 names on a piece of paper today and be virtually certain that one of them will be named Harvard president,” writes Gardner...
...surprise, on a recent early summer afternoon, that the team goofs its way through a photo shoot; that it smiles through a blizzard 200 miles from home; that it cheers its individual contestants relentlessly on the nation’s biggest stage.“We’re the loudest,” Gorin says. “We’re all screaming at each other.”Teammates agree that Brand has attracted a particular type of elite fencer.“I wouldn’t say goofy, although we have several characters like that...
Over the past four years my experiences here, and events on the world stage, have gradually made me realize that I cannot sit on the sidelines taking pictures forever. At some point action, or at least debate, is demanded. In the future when I see people arguing over abortion, the war in Iraq, or tax cuts, I will get involved. Not to persuade them, but to persuade myself that my opinion matters...