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Last fall, Gen Ed implementation committee chair Jay M. Harris sent an e-mail to all members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences asking them to submit course proposals...
...death to the civilization of life, my story, he described his transformation from hating Zionists as a youth to realizing "that hatred easily comes to include all Jews, then all Christians, then all liberal and secular Muslims, and at the end all Muslims who do not want to submit to Islamic radicals' will...
Harvard currently requires applicants to submit scores from three SAT II tests—which examine mastery of specific subjects rather than general reasoning—in addition to either the SAT I or the ACT tests...
...housing lottery did not always work this way—Harvard undergraduates used to submit housing preferences. In the early nineties, however, it became clear that allowing students to preference their housing choices was fostering sharp divisions within undergraduate life. Most notably, although Harvard was becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, various undergraduate houses were becoming more racially homogenous. This alarmed College higher-ups. To correct for this discrepancy, randomization was born...
...Still, the exuberance for House pride transcends Harvard, and it may point to something entirely generational. Just as the housing system to which we all submit was born out of a concern for preserving diversity, undergraduates’ impulse to foster House pride is the product of our diversity-conscious culture. Diversity is ultimately a positive societal goal—there seems to be little doubt about that. Yet it also makes for strange behavior. When people are lumped together with those with whom they may not have much in common, there’s an impulse to find some...