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...scheme and exacerbating a mental health crisis. But some changes benefit students, and skepticism shouldn’t obscure the merits of updating Harvard’s archaic academic calendar. The Crimson Staff, for example, said recently that getting bogged down with term papers and take-home projects after winter holidays is “leisurely,” offering students “plenty of time” to sample fine wines, ponder life, maybe take long, windy walks along the Charles...
...price of eight—three each term, with condensed courses providing a more concentrated academic experience without the frivolous projects. Competition from peer institutions and a shorter school year overall would hollow any excuses for a tuition hike. Although Stanford schedules its fall exams just before winter break, its very late start subjects it to the same criticisms encountered at Harvard: Students planning internships or work in the summer are stuck with a late return home, when it’s almost June and the jobs are taken...
...would begin after Labor Day, with exams before Thanksgiving. (As courses’ exam groups are published in advance, students who want desperately to get home to California or otherwise spend their late Novembers away from school could choose wisely and still get a longer Thanksgiving vacation.) With a winter term just beginning, the intense pressures to study over the holidays would be gone; and, for that matter, Thanksgiving would be salvaged as well, following immediately after fall exams...
Much earlier in the year between the winter and spring trimesters, spring break would coincide with sexy parties in Cancun and other schools’ breaks. Also, ski resorts would still have most of their slopes open, with students avoiding pricey lift tickets in the high season. For thesis writers, research seminars would end in the winter, freeing up time for an elective in the spring. And we could all get out of here in early...
While the Democratic candidates have cavorted among the people--and in the process shed the sallow, boring defensiveness of the past three years--the President hasn't been having a very happy winter. His State of the Union speech was eminently forgettable, except, perhaps, for his declaration of war on steroid use by athletes. Iraq remains a mess. Ten more Americans were killed there last week, and eight more in Afghanistan, which makes the President's Merrimack assertion of success in the war on terrorism--"Now we're marching to peace ... now we're secure in the peace"--seem insensitive...