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...sunset clauses, lasting no more than three or four years? These fields could be organized around a set of innovative, one-time-only freshmen seminars, Gen Ed courses, and departmental courses, each targeting a problem that energizes faculty and students alike. Courses could even be linked to short-term interdisciplinary and cross-faculty research projects. If a field lingered beyond its days as a secondary field, fine. But a lot of us would be just as happy to learn and move on. Even within existing departments, courses and curricula do not have to aim for permanence. I could easily imagine...
...year 2010. If Massachusetts chooses to think with moral sense and fiscal reason, it will not cut funding to some of its most helpless constituents. A portion of what it would have saved will be buoyed by the federal stimulus package and the new tax, but in the long term such dollars and cents thinking is beside the point. For a moment, policymakers need to put aside their pocketbooks and consider the quality of life of all their citizens...
...letter to Faust, we have to push forward and keep our promises to Harvard’s students and the Allston community. Current students were also hit with a late-winter announcements of a tuition increase. This, however troubling for families that already struggle with the term bill, was still something that must take place for academic goals to be preserved. This mixing of goals was also apparent in the extending of Harvard’s temporary ban on transfer applicants, when lack of adequate housing ruled out the chance to accept students from a very valuable pool. After...
...indeed had made the comment. We swim in activities and sometimes neglect classes. The word “camp” also implies a fixed space, which quite accurately describes that few of us leave campus as frequently as we all agree would be beneficial for our health. The term “Harvard bubble” has gained a firm place in our vocabulary for this reason...
...that are offered to students. Many professors and teaching fellows grant extensions to students here, sometimes for legitimate reasons such as illness, and sometimes for less legitimate reasons such as procrastination and poor planning on the part of the student. While these extensions might be beneficial in the short term in allowing students to receive higher grades, they are in the long term detrimental. There are many aspects of life here that promote procrastination, particularly assignments stacked towards the end of a semester, but possible extensions make procrastination even worse and create incentives for poor time management. Students will learn...