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...over their heads, it would be a waste of time for you to take it." Her reasoning was that successful contribution to the course required a somewhat developed knowledge of gender theory. A student told the professor that she was a sophomore, but had already taken a 90-level seminar and had been exposed to advanced gender theory. The professor told the student to leave. She only wanted juniors and seniors. That was the end of the conversation. The student left, albeit very bewildered and disappointed...
...same Chinese astrological sign. To exclude students based on their year makes some sense, but only if all students in the same year were the same person. I'm sure some informed professorial exclusions do save both the student and professor from the student asking in an advanced seminar on Derrida what this whole "deconstruction thing" is, but the point is that without more information other than the student's name or year, a professor is arbitrarily wielding his or her authority irresponsibly and to the possible detriment of a potentially well-qualified participant...
...Beijing is on the spot now that Hwang Jang Yop, a key member of North Korea?s ruling party and a close confidant to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, has launched an attempt to defect to South Korea via China. In Japan at a North Korean-sponsored international seminar, Hwang reportedly changed planes and departed Tokyo for Beijing. Hwang, 72, is a relative of late North Korean President Kim Il Sung and a prize product of the system, a graduate of North Korea's elite Kim Il Sung University and Moscow University in the late 1950s. Hwang would...
Over-enrollment, thy name is the Core. Without the Core, the average class size in a student's Harvard career would plummet. At other schools, distribution requirements are fulfilled in small seminar rooms tucked away in departmental buildings. Here, we often have to hope we make the lottery. Without addressing the limited choices offered in certain Core divisions, the University cannot seriously reform the quality of undergraduate teaching...
Only concentrators planning to pursue honors in government are required to take junior seminars, two of them. This term, all junior and senior concentrators who had not yet completed two seminars and told us they wanted to take one were admitted to one. And they were not admitted to just any seminar: 95 percent were admitted to their top choice, the remainder to their second choice...