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...order to supplement the dismal number of Core classes offered the Standing Committee on the Core Program should broaden the selection of departmental courses that can be taken for Core credit. Because they allow students the opportunity to take many departmental courses for credit the Science and QRR categories of the Core continue to be the most flexible in their provision of choice for students. Unfortunately, there are still no departmental courses offered which satisfy any of the Literature and Arts, Social Analysis or Historical Study A requirements...
...policy that restricts students to a tiny number of watered-down courses is antithetical to the University's standard of excellence. The lack of choice can force students to take easier Core courses instead of more advanced ones in the same field. We recall the words of President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, the founder of the Core curriculum. He believed that "Harvard students should graduate knowing a little bit of everything and something well." Limiting the scope of the Core curriculum is clearly not fulfilling his vision...
...from 20% to 30% annually in recent years. Many of the 13 million Americans who travel to Canada for leisure each year participate in outdoor activities. When Dean Wyatt bought Knight Inlet Lodge in 1996, all his business was sports fishing; now it is 98% ecotourism. Since 1993 the number of Canadian-based ecotourist operators like Wyatt has tripled, to more than...
...country grew wealthy and powerful, a good number of Americans became dissatisfied with the modest lines of the White House. There were proposals, which seemed to grow dramatically with the years, for grand palace-like structures to house the President, his staff and family. The discussions grew quite serious in 1889, during the Administration of Benjamin Harrison. His wife Caroline adored her position as First Lady but wanted more living space. Mercifully, all the grandiose dreams died in the face of costs and a growing sense that the country was deeply fond of George Washington's original creation. Theodore Roosevelt...
...probably best known for his Elian Gonzalez gaffe, is in play after all. At the heart of the struggle is the McCollum-Nelson contest. It could determine nothing less than whether Democrats can thwart Republican hegemony in a burgeoning, bellwether state that has the nation's fourth largest number of electoral votes (25) and help Gore pull off a coup against the Bush dynasty that might tip the presidential race...