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President Neil L. Rudenstine and Provost Jerry R. Green effectively declared calendar reform dead last week--at least for the near future. Both questioned the merits of the proposed new schedule and predicted change would not come anytime soon. Hooray! Hopefully, one of the campus's silliest debates has finally come...
Michael P. Beys '94, a former council chair and out-spoken advocate of the council's proposed calendar, has framed the debate over reform as a "single tradeoff" for students. The choice, Beys says, is between a stressful or carefree winter break...
...reform involves much more than a single tradeoff. The council's suggested calendar would detract from the current schedule in several ways...
...plan. Currently students enjoy Columbus and Veterans Days, welcome respites from the monotony of the fall term. These islands of sanity amid a sea of midterm exams allow students to catch up on a problem set or a paper, or just catch their breath. The new calendar would bring no vacation until Thanksgiving, which would remain a two-day recess. Yale and Penn at least have either a week off for Thanksgiving or two days of fall break in October...
...lingering summer job problem. One of the most convincing reasons for changing Harvard's calendar pertains to summer employment for students. Since employers have tailored many of their job programs to the schedule of most colleges around the country, undergraduates here often feel at a disadvantage in the summer job market. Critics of the current system advocate pushing the entire year back about three weeks for this reason...