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...alternative Ec 10 should not be an excuse for left-leaning students to ignore the Feldstein brand of conservative economics. Any new introductory economics class should be academically rigorous, well-taught and should cover the core of conventional economic thinking that Ec 10 does. Its professor should also eschew political bias in the lecture hall—having two biased courses in the place of one does not serve the needs of students. But if Marglin can meet the criteria to lead such a course, there is no reason not to give unhappy first-years a choice between...
...College needs to do more than just break Feldstein’s monopoly on introductory economics. Ec 10 should be split in two, so students can opt out of taking a semester of introductory economics and still receive Core credit. First-years should not have to be locked into a year-long course they hate to fulfill their Core requirement. Not everyone enrolled in Ec 10 needs to take both micro- and macroeconomics, and students should not have to do so for the sake of the Core...
...senior has approached HRTV this semester to create a film version of his puppet staging of Macbeth; that performance will be filmed and edited by the few core HRTV members...
...international students praised the wealth of academic choice available at Harvard, while most of their American peers tend to grouse about the limits of the Core. Perhaps this helps to explain their unusually high satisfaction rate with their undergraduate experience. There is, though, another possible explanation for their contentment: grinding...
...students, so the administration’s decision to grant student representation on the four newly-announced curricular review committees is its wisest decision to date in the evolving process. Student input gives reason to hope that a decade from now, undergraduates may be spared the horrors of the Core as we know it, of advisers we never see and of giant lecture halls filled to capacity. Innovations we propose, to meet our everyday needs, should be the basis for a revitalized curriculum. Undergraduate priorities should be placed side by side with Harvard’s research goals...