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Though “hesitant” to make public speaking a requirement, Engell said that alumni cite public speaking as the course they most wish they had been able to take...
...motivated by their objections to his recent remarks, some by opposition to a flow of power from FAS to the center, some by other complaints, still others no doubt by all of the above. Much has been said about how he can improve his leadership. But the Faculty may wish to consider not merely how it regards Summers but also how others will regard collective Faculty efforts to force him out. Some would say that the Faculty was trying to preserve its prerogatives against an energetic, if sometimes abrasive, President who was trying to press for change in many domains...
...remedy to the “undergraduate problem” may require the type of cultural shift that Summers has initiated. Perhaps some forceful leadership with support from alumni, and even confrontation, is in order if we wish to bring balance to the faculty’s parochial perspective on undergraduate life. While Summers’ recent remarks and disrespectful style are unfortunate, the real tragedy would be if the faculty’s current discontent with the man were used as a pretext to discount his important ideas on undergraduate reform...
...plus side, with student groups from The Crimson to the South Asian Association jumping on the benevolence bandwagon, undergrads found themselves besieged last month by more party invitations than a thirteen-year-old at a Jewish day school. Hell, it kinda makes you wish they’d have tsunamis more often...
Lotteries occur frequently for undergraduates at Harvard, where professors who wish to maintain the integrity of smaller, discussion-based lectures choose to limit enrollment through standard and fair procedures. Unlike his fellow colleagues, Wegner decided to create his own method, one that failed to give priority to seniors and concentrators, many of whom needed this foundation class for their concentration requirements...