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...courses laid out by the Task Force with a second tier made up of a broad variety of departmental classes that will count for general education credit. Such a system would provide top-notch and applicable courses that would serve as a portal to disciplines a student is unfamiliar with but would also allow students who want to explore an area in depth to do so without excessive handholding or demeaning and overly simplified requirements.While we generally applaud the Task Force’s adherence to a consistent underlying philosophy, the report’s undying loyalty to a somewhat...
...challenges of a university struggling with growth, limited space, and administrative uncertainty.“This is one of these instances where you can see the snow-balling effect of something else on something else on something else.”BOOKS AND BULLDOZERSMany economics concentrators appeared to be unfamiliar with the fine arts books’ impending arrival. Saying they had not yet heard the news, Co-Presidents of the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association Hoppy M. Maffione ’08 and Christopher R. Suen ’08 declined to comment for this story.Professor of Economics Susan...
...journey of the Lost Boys is poignant and engrossing, but it's not unfamiliar. Beah, however, is a new breed; he's not just a victim but a perpetrator. For almost the first time, we are seeing life from behind the dead eyes of a killer child. And life is not good. How many people did he kill? "I really have no idea," Beah says during an interview in Paris, where he is taking some time off before his publicity tour. "I never thought to keep count. We attacked civilians, villagers--anyone the commander deemed was an enemy; we killed...
...Basketball Team as they traveled into the depths of anonymity—New Britain, Connecticut—for a formidable non-conference tilt against the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils.Never heard of the school? Neither had I. Never heard of New Britain? Join the club.To enlighten those unfamiliar with this great city and worthy university, Central Connecticut State, or CCSU for short, is the oldest public university in Connecticut, was founded in 1849, enrolls almost 13,000 students, has a freakishly good running back in Justise Hairtson (participated in the Hula Bowl all-star game last month), and procures some...
...Beijing bureau back in 2001 was that they were wearing new shirts. With callused hands and dirt under their fingernails, these men were trying to blend in with the well-dressed crowds in China's capital. But one look and you could tell they were poor peasants in unfamiliar city clothes. Their shirts all had identical shirt-box creases. One peasant, an apple grower named Liang Yumin, tugged at his neck throughout our conversation, fingering the piece of cardboard still tucked under his collar...