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...seminal catalyst for calendar reform, the cost of energy, has been reduced to inconsequence. The UC announced as part of its 26-page report on the issue that the total energy savings of calendar reform would amount to a measly $200,000.This time around, advocates are focusing on students?? bottom lines instead of the College’s. Today’s UC has forged a coalition with the Woodbridge Society for International Students, since they face perhaps the most painful repercussions of the current calendar. Recently imposed restrictions on H1B visas, the type foreigners need to hold...
...creation of a committee on activity-based learning (ABL), an initiative to integrate students?? extracurricular activities with their academic experiences in the classroom, was proposed in the final report of the Task Force on General Education released in February...
...listen up. Fielding another friend request? Ogling a gorgeous profile? Be careful: though unconfirmed, rumors have been circulating that one undergraduate lost a coveted summer situation due to inappropriate posts on his wall. “I’m not aware of any fellowships selection committees looking at students?? profiles on Facebook, but I suppose it’s certainly possible,” Lowell House Fellowships Committee Chair Joshua D. Goldman wrote in an e-mail. “Anything on Facebook, MySpace.com, personal webpages, etc. is obviously publicly accessible so that others—including...
...Social Studies junior tutorial. The course, “Practicing Democracy: Leadership, Community, Power,” required that students work on an “organizing project” such as a get-out-the-vote campaign. Boes concluded that in connecting experience and theory, ABL had challenged students?? “assumptions about the nature and sources of knowledge.” Riley, who interviewed 30 students in seven ABL courses for her senior thesis, found that the ABL program had given students a “sense of purpose beyond grades,” fostered...
...pass-fail courses in all departments. Departments should accept any relevant courses for concentration credit—whether those courses are letter-graded or not—with the exception of foundational or introductory courses. Right now, the risk-taking it was meant to encourage remains limited purely to students?? electives, and has little impact on our serious academic pursuits, which all count towards the tyrannical...