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...hope is so visible now, at the start of the new semester, because the possibility of this sort of transformation is tangible. Unsullied notebooks, uncrumpled syllabi, un-dogeared books—all bespeak the sort of hope for a new beginning that my blockmate expressed in her list of resolutions...
...sources that students will be using to preregister. Under the proposal, students are being asked to make decisions on classes that will affect both their undergraduate careers and future lives despite suffering from a substantial lack of information. CUE Guide ratings, short blurbs in the course catalog and course syllabi are not sufficient. And, since advising at Harvard is lackluster compared to other schools, students have even less information about classes than they would at comparable schools with preregistraion systems...
Preregistration will also hamper professors who, busy during term-time with classes and research, currently use intersession to compile syllabi and decide on the precise topics that their courses will cover. Under the new system, these decisions will have to be rushed or prepared much further in advance to get the information to students in November...
...says its director Tim Supple. Despite all the hush-hush, there's been no shortage of advance buzz over the play, which opens in London's Barbican Theatre on Jan. 29. Its provenance alone guarantees the highest expectations: Rushdie's 1981 novel is a modern classic found on literature syllabi in universities around the world. The project's other obvious talking point is its seeming implausibility: ever since the project was announced last September, fans of the book have wondered how Rushdie's sweeping, sprawling saga could possibly be squeezed into the confines of the stage. That question has exercised...
...most commonly in the insidious form of copying or other illicit collaboration—happens quite a bit at Harvard on take-home assignments, especially problem sets. Worse, Harvard’s prohibitory policies on inappropriate collaboration, while explicitly stated in the Handbook for Students and often in course syllabi themselves, are enforced about as effectively as anti-terrorism legislation is enforced by the Palestinian Authority...