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...Term”) were also being floated. Middlebury, Cornell, MIT, Williams and a host of other schools boast these J-Terms, which allow their students to study independently or participate in numerous different activities in the time between terms. J-Terms offer significant benefits. Students can catch up on coursework or travel internationally during the J-Term, free for an entire month from the crush of schoolwork. We are skeptical about the prospects for a J-Term at Harvard, however. First, it would be difficult to get faculty members to shoulder the extra weight of teaching another course. Also...
...about to be answered. Robert P. Young ’06 is finishing up “Reagan Returns,” a film that shows a reanimated Ronald Reagan attempting to conquer the United States. The film, which is unrelated to Young’s VES coursework, has been his pet project since last year. When an evil Secret Service Agent, played by Nathan D. Turner ’05, reanimates Reagan, the ex-president joins forces with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. After the pair deposes George W. Bush, it’s up to Reagan?...
...Coursework which is routine at MIT is considered onerous at Harvard,” he says...
...exactly happens during the third? Given that even professional litigators have a hard time coming up with a good answer, at least one school has decided to eliminate the year of living lazily. Starting next summer, attorneys-in-training at the University of Dayton will be able to complete coursework in two years, rather than the traditional three. The accelerated program-just approved by the American Bar Association-is the first of its kind in the U.S. But rival law schools like Northwestern, Pepperdine, and Washington University are already studying Dayton's model and considering similar reductions...
...band Weezer, said last week he plans to return to Harvard this spring to finish a degree he started 10 years ago. In an interview on “The Howard Stern Show” last week, Cuomo said he will return to Harvard this February to complete his coursework. He first enrolled at Harvard in the fall of 1995 but left with two semesters remaining, initially concentrating in Music but later switching to English and American Literature and Language. After leaving school in 1997, he returned to campus last fall, living in Cabot House. Since he first matriculated, Cuomo...