Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some members of the CUE argued against putting too many restrictions on independent work, calling it a necessary opportunity for students not served by Harvard's curriculum. Others, including Educational Resources Group member Peter M. Engel '81, argued that it was "a ludicrous reflection on a Harvard education...
...tightened guidelines for approving independent work proposals by requiring a student's senior tutor to sign each proposal, as well as a faculty member providing a double-check on the validity of a student' proposal...
Administrators also complained that some faculty members were approving far too many independent work courses. Two administrators alone accounted for a large minority of the courses approved. Some CUE members advocating limiting the number of courses one faculty member could approve, while others suggested allowing only teaching faculty and not administrators to approve the courses...
...best in this collection. A construction foreman tells why he resisted his superiors' demand that he declare a block of apartments finished before it's ready. The narrator is no warrior of dissent; his only reason for stepping out of line is that he "doesn't like sloppy work." Voinovich characterizes his hero and the people around him with spare strokes of wry description and an occasional slip of the knife...
Organizers of the event--who have been hard at work in an 11th-floor office in downtown Boston--predict a happy, festive occasion. There will be speeches and lots of hand-shaking and back-patting. A lot of Bostonians have been scrambling for invitations to the event for quite some time. As he did at last year's dedication of the Kennedy School of Government, Kennedy is expected to honor the memory of his brother solemnly. But underneath the pomp and the social scene is a story that people still hesitate to talk about. It is a story of community...