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After four years at Harvard, students can graduate into the company of educated men and women without knowledge of Aristotle, Shakespeare, the Charter of the United Nations or even the Constitution of the United States. The present structure of Harvard’s Core Curriculum allows students to escape all of these topics and replace them with multicultural alternatives. In Historical Study A, for example, students can readily substitute for “Democracy in America and Europe” courses like “Gendered Communities: Women, Islam, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa...
Instead of structuring its general education program around what the Core bureaucrats call “approaches to knowledge in areas that the faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education,” Harvard should establish a canon of great works that the Faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education. This canon should include Shakespeare and the Constitution, and there should be no escaping Western truths. While Muslim women and African art are certainly worthwhile to study also, these topics belong in department courses and not in the Core...
...tomorrow’s city council election, DeBergalis has been no stranger this election season to Mather House—or to the Yard or MIT frats, for that matter—in pursuit of student voters, a typically-neglected segment of the electorate that he targets as his core constituency...
...core philosophy is that the student union should be centrally located—it should be the crossroads of campus, the hearthstone,” says Paul Knell, a senior principal at WTW Architects, a firm that has planned or designed over 50 student centers in the past 15 years...
...year, and faces formidable foes in the Peugeot 307, Renault Mégane and Mazda's upcoming Mazda3. Analysts say the Golf already loses sales to other VW brethren, such as the Audi A3 and models from Skoda and Seat. Japanese and Korean automakers are cutting into VW's core segment: compacts. In a European market down 1.5% this year, Honda's sales are up 7.4%, almost entirely thanks to its new Jazz subcompact. Hyundai, with sales up 10.8%, boasts a European market share of 1.7%, now on par with VW's Skoda brand. And Toyota's Yaris, packed with...