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...Case studies, like books that professors write, would not be included in this category because their authors have a right to profit from their published work. Similarly lecture videos would not be included because making videos public would alter how students behave in the classroom. But syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets and other printed course materials that cannot be published and are already online for students should be made available to the public.HBS’s arrangement with BYU-Idaho, however, falls in a slightly different category because case studies, along with most of the other electronic resources...
...Nevertheless, Brown’s recent experiment with an optional not-for-credit J-term is a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of an instituting such a program without sufficient support—only 19 students signed up, less than a fifth of the number that administrators expected. The problem, rather obviously, was that most students would rather take a longer vacation to decompress from the pressures of academic life than squirrel themselves away in a frost-encrusted dorm doing problem sets and essays or—worse yet—nothing worthwhile at all. The other alternatives...
...them.” Amanda F. Guardado ’10, who attended last night’s event, said she believes that “women’s issues in general are not supported enough.” “Since rape is a huge problem, not just on a college campus, but also worldwide, I feel like we should take every step possible to prevent it,” said Guardado, who is co-chair for publicity of Students for Choice, one of the “Take Back the Night” co-sponsors...
Harvard is indeed in peril of losing its American identity, but the problem is not one that can or should be fixed by a majority vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). At its root, this is a problem of emotion, rather than academics. The danger is not that future generations of Harvard students will lose the ability to study American labor markets, read Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” or write essays about the Atlanta Compromise. It is that they will no longer understand, on a gut level, why they...
...This problem goes far beyond the realm of the curricular review. It is the product of an irony-soaked campus culture that all too often spurns simple, earnest patriotism in favor of suave, detached cosmopolitanism...