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Fitzsimmons also said that he doubts that the recent turmoil at the University’s highest ranks—including the resignation of its president and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??will affect the College’s yield...
Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences?? Educational Policy Committee (EPC) met yesterday to “clean up” their legislation that proposes postponing concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year and adding “secondary concentrations” akin to minors. The meeting moves FAS one step closer to casting its first votes on the curricular review. The legislation will be presented to the 19-member Faculty Council today and will likely face a final vote at the April 4 meeting of the full Faculty. Initial drafts of the legislation were presented...
While the campus has recently been embroiled by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences?? distaste for outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard has historically been a difficult campus to please. For example, students risked expulsion in 1766 for criticizing rancid butter served in the Commons, and in 1768, they revolted against raising academic standards by smashing tutors’ windows. In the “Great Rebellion of 1834,” students raised a black flag of rebellion and burned University President Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, in effigy. And in 1969, University President Nathan...
Although Kennedy and his colleagues have fervently denied the charges, citing Kennedy’s limp as the cause for his failed sobriety test, not even the ringleaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences?? circus—has been accused by pundits of unlawful intoxication...
...offered to explain what went wrong. Generating much heat but little light, every media outlet blamed a different culprit, from a hard-left faculty of “feminazis” to structural problems in Harvard’s system of governance. Unfortunately, with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences?? continued silence on the issue, what Pforzheimer House Master James J. McCarthy called “uninformed and/or misinformed” speculation may be the best explanation that the Harvard community gets...