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There is a glimmer of hope, after all. At Tuesday??s Faculty meeting, 11 professors rose to speak on Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby’s proposal to introduce preregistration to Harvard College. And 10 railed against the idea. Some pointed out the logistical problems that preregistration would cause, including burying professors under a mountain of add/drop forms; some queried whether the proposal would even bring improved class-size predictions that Kirby had claimed, and some pointed out that the scheme’s introduction would be deleterious for undergraduate education...
...Tuesday??s Faculty meeting, however uplifiting, was not the end of the preregistration debate. A long battle stretches ahead to save shopping period and preserve student choice. But at least there will be a battle, a notion that seemed unlikely until Tuesday afternoon. Now students must contact individual faculty members and let them know undergraduates’ views on Kirby’s proposal. And now every member of the Faculty must examine both the administration’s flawed plans for preregistration and Tuesday afternoon’s rousing speeches to determine their own stance...
Kirby rode into his job with a mandate to reinvigorate undergraduate education. But as many professors argued at Tuesday??s Faculty meeting on preregistration, his first policy change as dean will benefit professors and graduate students at the expense of undergraduates’ flexibility and freedom...
...this won’t be an option. Levin will have to chose his cellists before he’s heard next year’s Yo Yo Ma ’76. Subsequent to FM’s interview with him, Levin came out strongly against preregistration at Tuesday??s Faculty meeting. “This is practically, really, aesthetically repugnant...it really doesn’t serve the goals of education, it serves the goals of the administration,” he said at that meeting. According to his colleagues, Dean of the College Harry...
Despite the very vocal opposition to preregistration at Tuesday??s Faculty meeting, many Faculty members aren’t shedding any tears for shopping period. A few administrators say privately that some faculty like preregistration precisely because they’re hoping it will kill off the notion of shopping for classes. They don’t like feeling like a commodity to be traded around on the sudden impulses of the market. This sentiment is nothing new—an article in The Crimson from the 1950s described faculty complaints that shopping period forced them...