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...first time ever having access to high speed internet,” he recalls. “I was downloading quite a bit . . . stuff I shouldn’t have been downloading, like new movies and stuff.”Nygard says that he found ways to navigate his year-long expulsion from Harvard’s network and that the experience has made him smarter—if not entirely reformed.“I download T.V. shows,” he says. “But I don’t download anything that they go after...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Media Pirates, Beware? | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...fields—which would be akin to minors—“allows students to pursue passions beyond their concentration.” But Petersen, who is also a co-sponsor of the bill, acknowledged that the reforms will force departments to re-evaluate concentration requirements and year-long tutorials. “Certainly there are administrative difficulties within departments with these reforms, but the overall student benefit is so great that I think Faculty will end up adopting them,” Petersen said. The UC also passed a bill supporting universal key-card access for freshman...

Author: By Rachel L. Pollack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Endorses Delay in Concentration Choice | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...Professor Psychology Steven Pinker in an e-mail. The Generdal Education Committee was unable to agree on the right requirement, so they settled for no requirement at all.VERITASUntil the late 19th century, according to Professor of History James T. Kloppenberg, seniors in the College capped their education with a year-long course in moral philosophy taught by the University president. The course was meant to give overall meaning and purpose to the students’ college experience.The moral reasoning requirement, though, was not meant to be a grand exercise in making life in the Yard meaningful.Instead, according...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moral No More, Maybe | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

University of California, Los Angeles student Adam B. Sterling, co-chair of the task force that led a year-long divestment campaign, said it was important that other universities follow the Regents’ lead and take a stance against genocide...

Author: By Cyrus M. Mossavar-rahmani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Momentum Builds Behind Renewed Divestment Push | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...required even earlier. “I’d like to see it happen during freshman week,” he said. Another potential concern, Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge Dominguez said, is that a delay in concentration choice would require departments—especially those with year-long sophomore tutorials—to change their requirements. But Dominguez said he thought the Government department, which currently requires a full year of sophomore tutorials, could adjust.“It’s nothing particularly difficult or complicated,” he said. Chair of the History Department...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: FAS Could Delay Concentrations | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

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