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...government." Vairoj Phiphipakdee, an opposition lawmaker and Muslim from Pattani who has met with gangs that have shot policemen and burned schools, says he has observed a marked change in the separatist cause over the past two years. Back then, he estimates, there were fewer than 20 hard-core separatists in the south. Now, he says, "I believe it's a full-blown separatist revolt involving hundreds of people?and it came about because of mistakes in government policy...
...much-anticipated curricular review proposals were released last Monday, calling for needed changes such as abolishing the Core curriculum, further emphasizing the sciences, and encouraging (or perhaps, even requiring) an international experience abroad. Many of the recommendations were expected, if not decades in the making; students have complained about several of the salient issues for years now. We support the curricular review’s general mission to counter a general trend towards specialization through relaxing requirements and broadening the benefits of a liberal arts education—the ability to reason in a variety of academic disciplines. Nevertheless...
...limited list of mediocre courses. Meanwhile, the creation of Harvard College Courses demonstrates the College’s commitment to broad-based liberal arts education and provides students with even more options for satisfying requirements. The courses are designed to promote an interdisciplinary aspect of the curriculum that the Core so rarely achieves...
Likewise, we support the move to bring the natural and physical sciences up to par with the humanities and social sciences. For too long, science concentrators have been burdened with a disproportionate number of requirements outside their chosen field of study. Many of the Core areas overlap with non-science fields; whereas science concentrators are required to take three Literature and Arts courses, two Historical Study courses, one Moral Reasoning and one Foreign Cultures course. The newer, more equitable system is an acknowledgement that the hard sciences deserve just as prominent a position in the curriculum as the humanities...
Harvard Hall 104 filled up like an easy Core class during shopping period, as almost every seat full by 3:30 last Sunday afteroon when the discussion began with Mark Goffman, the story editor for the popular NBC Wednesday night drama, “The West Wing...