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...General Education committee meeting, where he would help hammer out course proposals for an hour and a half. It’s behind-the-scenes labors like these that have occupied the Gen Ed committee over much of the last two years, as the College looks to turn the Gen Ed legislation passed by the Faculty in 2007 into a concrete set of courses for incoming freshmen in the class of 2013—all of whom will fall under the new program. The work thus far has been more struggle than seamless shift. There’s always...
...lack of prioritization of student opinion in decision making.“It isn’t a choice. I’m only capable of being reactive and not proactive,” she says. “Was I reactive by choice? No. Did it turn out that way? Yes.”And within the Council, Flores came down on the losing side of the debate on how to create more student social space—perhaps the body’s most high-profile legislative effort of the semester.Now, with only a semester left in office...
...Harvard College is only one part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but the impact of the present financial crisis on the whole of FAS and, in turn, on Harvard College and the House system presents a serious challenge to the Harvard community...
...most taxpayers, this was a sad turn of events. For years, Republicans sought political power so they could implement the kind of limited-government reforms they claimed to stand for. But when they finally got their hands on the Senate, House, and White House, some in the GOP abused that power...
...transferred in previous semesters. The required meetings were not “Sex Signals” or anything of the like but simply relayed to us academic-related information that we needed to know. The rest of the week consisted of optional social events and meals. In turn, this set-up placed very little responsibility on Harvard’s administrative resources, adding only a minimal amount of work to their Freshman Week load...