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Changing the Core is a priority for Rosalie Thede ’06, who will serve on the General Education committee. She said the Core provides a good way to ensure each student gets a broad education, but the requirements should be more flexible...
...thought it would be nice to have up to three or four core exemptionson A.P. [Advanced Placement] scores,” Thede said. “I’d like to see a place for A.P. credit and I see the Core as the best place for that...
Colette J. Shen ’04, who will be part of the concentrations committee, pointed to what she views as inequalities in the Core between humanities and science concentrators...
...President Bush last week referred to the destruction of Ansar's base as one of the war's important early achievements. But it may be a limited one. In Halabja, U.S. commando Mark says, "A lot of the senior cadre fled a long time ago, leaving a fanatical hard core to stay for the last stand. They had little intention of surviving." The Americans blasting away at the holdouts recognize this and lament opportunities lost. "This is my second time in northern Iraq," says a special-forces soldier. "I should be in Tampa with my wife enjoying spring break. Instead...
Undoubtedly, various aspects of Harvard’s classroom instruction leave room for improvement. But if we want to improve education, let’s talk about advising, teaching, and the Core, all of which the curricular review will examine over the next two years. Subordinating non-curricular life to the classroom experience by putting all of the responsibilities of the Dean of the College under an individual who is primarily charged with leading the curricular review will only hinder Harvard’s ability to educate the whole person. It is becoming abundantly clear that our administration is more...