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...services are needed and they are willing to provide them.The new system’s success also depends largely on the availability of a broad array of departmental alternatives to its foundational courses. Unless there is considerable latitude in selecting classes, the new system will be a straitjacket for students??just like the Core. Yet the current legislation implementing the proposal does not ensure such choice. It will be up to the new dean to lead the way in policing the system so that exemptions and departmental alternatives are the rule and not the exception.Beyond the new general...
...Communications Crista Martin said that while HUDS does not have a formal policy to address such situations, it does “all kinds of things in the neighborhood, and so we were just glad to be able to help them out.” According to Martin, students?? parents have sent e-mails to HUDS to express their gratitude—and HUDS was happy to play host to the youngsters. “I’m just glad that they were able to be there,” Martin said. —Staff writer...
...minority groups have started their spring scramble to secure hosts for Harvard’s newest admits. It starts every April, when each of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program’s (UMRP) five divisions—for African American, Asian American, Latino American, Mexican American, and Native American students??host phone-a-thons to call admitted students. “At the end of our conversation [with these students] we ask if they’re coming to Prefrosh Weekend, and particularly with the Asian students we ask if they’re interested in being paired...
...students cannot live on Plato and Proust alone. If the hordes of economics concentrators are any sign, there is no lack of interest in the market. So, just as campus publications hone the skills of budding journalists, similarly should seed grants or non-interest loans from the administration nourish students?? brilliant ideas...
This past fall, the instructors in Sociology 189, “Law and Social Movements,” used Turnitin.com to scan students?? work as part of a plagiarism-detection pilot program run by Harvard’s Instructional Computing Group (ICG). The nine-year-old Web site, which added an admissions-essay service in 2004, has screened 27,000 admissions essays and found 11 percent to contain at least one-quarter of un-original material, according to The Wall Street Journal...