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...year for the full Faculty was to complete the Curricular Review, which was limping into its fifth year. One would expect that an opportunity to reinvent the meaning of a liberal education would draw Harvard’s academics out in droves. Yet anemic attendance at Faculty meetings??when the Faculty bothered to have them at all—served as depressing indicators of Faculty apathy. Unsurprisingly, the Curricular Review largely fell flat. Instead of crafting a meaningful statement on what it means to be educated in today’s world, professors only seemed to care that...
...week when embassies were being torched and innocent people murdered elsewhere in the world, amidst the engineered rage that followed the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark. By most indications, it was a remarkable cultural phenomenon, warranting a great blossoming of teach-ins and town-hall meetings??but the campus remained inauspiciously...
...Murrell says. “He spends so much time working on what’s going on right now...he really tries not to give it any mind at all.”OFF DUTYFour hours later, with midnight quickly becoming a memory, and with four meetings??including a special UC general vote to approve the upcoming calendar referendum—in the rearview mirror, the only skeptic in the room knows Sundquist as well as anyone.Troy Murrell, friend of Sundquist and fellow resident of Mather 305, has declared himself an enemy of calendar change...
Despite those meetings??and the slight ameliorating effect they appear to have had on relations between University officials and Allston residents—the height of the science complex has remained a point of contention...
...remake to walk into a room together, except perhaps to begin the kind of joke that movie nerds like to make up in their spare time. Yet somehow, such a meeting happened not once, but many times over several months.Though lighthearted at times, the result of those meetings??a film adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel “300”—can hardly be considered a joke. Amidst scenes of elephants stomping through crowds and bare-chested men throwing each other off cliffs, the movie, a reimagination of the fifth-century...