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These three ends should stand at the core of any effort to formulate effective bipartisan social policy. But the Times study, along with a thorough analysis of the laws’ unintended consequences, indicates that this legislation is not a sensible means of attaining these critical ends...
Again, I will retreat a bit and qualify: most of the qualms I have with the science and math Cores I’ve taken are basically bureaucratic in nature. I actually loved the lectures in my Quantitative Reasoning Core (Peter Ellison’s “Counting People”), and I was happy to absorb what I could of my Science A (again, the contrarian in me decided to protest the Core, and so I took Earth and Planetary Sciences 5, which was fascinating, but you can only imagine how well that midterm went...
...victim in this drama, not a villain—a victim not of faculty anger but of his success at the role assigned to him.” Lewis called on students, faculty, alumni, and members of the governing boards to restore “a true core to undergraduate education,” even as the University protects its “reputation for excellence.” “Excellence must remain a guiding value, but the pursuit of excellence should no longer be an excuse for ignoring everything else,” he wrote. Lewis said...
...then quickly tossed aside in favor of more alluring texts like CUE guides, course catalogs, and ever-handy copies of “Writing with Sources.”Today, Harvard makes one last-ditch attempt to force students to think critically about ethics through the Moral Reasoning core. There, students are asked to question their own beliefs. What is justice? If there is no God, is all permitted? And other such quandaries.Under the new General Education plan proposed by the Committee on General Education, however, moral reasoning classes may be stricken from the catalog. The proposal stresses the importance...
...agrees. “Chances are, you can turn to any page in the [NCAA] manual and find something that doesn’t entirely make sense to you,” he wrote in an e-mail. While we flabby non-atheletes enjoy pocketed folders and hard core cold meds, our sportif comrades should take the time to study the rule book to stay on the field. Score...