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Were people happy because they thought that Harvard could provide a better liberal arts education to future students by lessening the Core, or were they simply relieved that they no longer had to worry about that annoying Foreign Cultures class...
Take, for instance, the case of Harvard’s Core Curriculum and its study-abroad policy, both of which underwent change last year and will likely be changing much more radically in the near future. There is a remarkable degree of homogeneity in opinion across campus about these two issues. “I hate the Core, it’s too intrusive” is a common sentiment expressed about the former, and “It’s really bad that Harvard makes it so hard to study abroad” about the latter...
...When the Core requirement was reduced from eight to seven last year, nobody—of course—complained, and most were quite happy. Likewise with the easing up of strictures on study abroad...
There are perhaps some reasonable grievances that could be levied against the current Core, and there are certainly some very good reasons why a relaxation of Harvard’s very tight study abroad policies might be the right thing. But these reasons, whatever they are, are not the ones that underscore most people’s complaints about these and other such issues...
...entered shopping period with but one space to fill. My social studies-mandated schedule of Ec 10, Social Studies 10 and Historical Studies A-73 begged for a “fun” class. After toying with the idea of taking an art elective or an easy Core, I returned to my friend Jesus for a third helping—in the form of Gomes’ Religion 42, “The Christian Bible and its Interpreters...