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This shopping period, the CUE guide will have company. There’s a new source in town for information about Harvard’s courses, a student-initiated website called “CriticalMass.” But the new website shouldn’t be seen as a competitor. It’s a good complement to the existing guidebook, clearly intended to fill a different role. If students take full advantage of “CriticalMass,” the new site has the potential to provide the candid personal student feedback that the CUE guide cannot...
...site promises to address academic issues in a different way on a different timetable, but by definition it caters to extremes; it cannot replace the CUE guide as a measure of overall student opinion about courses. Of course, the CUE guide could still benefit from several updates to its format. Part of the appeal of “CriticalMass” is that it provides students with feedback beyond statistics, and the Committee on Undergraduate Education ought to take note...
Personal comments made on CUE guide forms ought to be made available online for perusal by shopping students. To facilitate this change, the course evaluation forms ought to be filled out online, perhaps as a requirement for accessing online grade reports. This new format will increase response rates and make the CUE statistics more useful and accurate. Those students who would rather not fill out the form could still forego the procedure and simply wait a week for grades to be mailed home...
...South Africa is the tournament's principal host, a few matches are set to be played in Kenya and Zimbabwe. And since Christmas, a succession of British ministers have called on the English cricket team to boycott their Feb. 13 game against the home team in Harare. Taking their cue from International Development Secretary Clare Short, many British political commentators have sputtered at the thought of the captain of England, Nasser Hussain, shaking hands with Mugabe before the game. Even Prime Minister Tony Blair weighed in, calling on the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to withdraw from the Harare...
...good thing about the CUE Guide is that everybody is supposed to fill it out,” said Travis M. Beamish ’04. “The website will have more extreme views, and it might not be representative of Harvard as a whole...