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...Arts and Science is, and regardless of which bodies of the University are cooperating. No power vacuum, no matter how large, need stall the reforms of this curricular review (already three years in the making), and with support from deans and faculty—and the support of undergraduates??€”we can renew reform without pause.At this point, the review’s first priority should be to eliminate the Core Curriculum. Students and professors are in widespread consensus that the Core is generally impotent and that its philosophies are misguided. Now is our chance to dissolve...
...transcripts—will follow average grade distribution in the College, with about a quarter of students receiving A’s and another quarter receiving A-minues.Last month, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 sent a letter to Faculty members detailing the distribution of undergraduates??€™ grades over the past two decades. According to that letter, A’s accounted for 23.7 percent of all grades given to undergrads last academic year—the highest level since 1999-2000, and the second-highest level over the past 20 years.The most common grade...
While Bostonians once poured tea over the side of a ship in defiance of British rule, four Harvard seniors will soon serve tea in England as ambassadors of Anglophonic solidarity. Four undergraduates??€”Joey M. Hanzich ’06, Sylvia W. Houghteling ’06, Om L. Lala ’06, and Jonathan A. Blazek ’06—were awarded Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships last Saturday, which will send them in October across the Atlantic to study at Cambridge University.Hanzich, Houghteling, and Lala plan to pursue Masters of Philosophy (M. Phil) degrees and Blazek...
...before their 21st birthdays, in one of several new initiatives planned for the coming semester by Director of Alcohol and Other Drug Services Ryan M. Travia. According to Travia, the cards will inform students that 69 percent of students at the college eat before and/or during drinking according to undergraduates??€™ responses to the National College Health Assessment (NCHA)—a survey administered to students each spring. Travia said the cards will serve the purpose of “wishing [the students] a happy birthday from my office and telling them that if they choose...
Based on the recommendation of the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) and the results of an extensive survey of undergraduates??€™ research experiences, Harvard will launch a 10-week long residential program this summer for students doing on-campus science research. The Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) will provide housing, some meals, and special lectures for between 100 and 140 Harvard undergraduates who have research jobs lined up with Harvard-affiliated professors in the math and sciences. Before the start of the summer, PRISE will also help students who haven?...