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...Harvard. Ravishankara’s online video shorts have gained him minor fame, and his movies have been featured on MTV’s college network. Now, as he heads out into the real world, he’s set on making it in the film industry. This year??s graduating class has enjoyed four years full of Ravishankara’s creative works. Beginning with the band “Action Man” that performed at the freshman talent show four years ago, he’s played in two bands, penned three comic strips, directed...
...general education is the public face of liberal education”—as the Task Force on General Education report declared this year??Harvard will soon be known for being muddled and uninspiring. The new curriculum, which was passed last month by a Faculty anxious not to lose face by voting down legislation that has been over four years in the making, is a flawed hodgepodge that, in trying to appease everyone, will ultimately serve no one. When the Task Force’s preliminary report was released last October, we hoped and believed that General...
...Still more surprising was the suspicion directed at the HCWC for fulfilling our secondary mission of providing comfortable, friendly, social and meeting space. The year??s activities—over 400 meetings and events in our space in less than 240 days of operation—confirms that we have much to offer the community in this respect. We will continue to counter the specious idea that we can’t be both welcoming and weighty by cheerfully and confidently being both...
...sense. Many students enter Harvard expressing an interest in concentrating in science—Harvard news releases from the past few years state that just under half of matriculating students are prospective life science, physical science, mathematics, engineering, or computer science concentrators. Meanwhile, a tabulation of data in this year??s Handbook for Students shows that just over a quarter of students with a declared concentration as of November 2005 had a primary concentration in one of those fields...
...interesting group” and an intellectual challenge, but that is part of the reason why Social Studies has received so many concentrators who do not fit with the concentration. In recent years, Social Studies has had one of the worst dropout rates from its concentration. This year??s group of graduating seniors began with 136 concentrators; only 90 will graduate today...