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...advisory group of Faculty members who will weigh the proposals in consultation with the Committee on Undergraduate Education, which includes undergraduates. The resulting report will be presented to the Faculty Council for consideration at the end of this calendar year...
Jessica Hammer '99, who produced a play that did receive Arts First funding, also said that the OFA failed to announce the calendar deadline or that any project could be included in the brochure...
...this year. I find on my calendar sections, lectures, and even new assigned reading! It was the same story in the fall semester. Are these assignments from obscure concentration courses that naturally require extra effort from students? No! The classes I am taking that have met in "reading period" are Historical Studies B-42 (The Civil War) and Ec 10! Two core classes that together enroll hundreds of students...
Beyond the simple fact of having ample time to study, review and synthesize, there is a psychological component to reading period--or the lack thereof. It is extremely comforting at the beginning of May to look at the calendar and see two free weeks available to study...
...Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D. 1. At any rate, the history of the past thousand years shows that mass psychology--if not events themselves--tends to behave in predictable ways when multiple zeros loom on the calendar. So if not plagued by incipient hype-induced ennui, how then should we be feeling as the 20th century winds down? "Convinced of exhaustion, extreme peril, exorbitant risk, explosive transformation." This is historian Hillel Schwartz's description of the fin-de-siecle mind-set in his definitive book Century...