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Nevertheless, non-concentrators will have a hard time seeing Gates, who is teaching a graduate seminar and an Afro-Am tutorial, or the department's other high-profile catch, Spike Lee, whose class is limited to 50 with preference given to Afro-Am concentrators...
...even though administrators cite the freshman seminar program as Harvard's best, it cannot escape the influence of a University whose number one priority is clearly not providing a top-rate liberal arts education...
WHEN I ARRIVED on campus, I was plenty excited by the prospect of taking a seminar. An hour before the deadline for applications, just a few days after dorms opened, I scribbled out essays for four of them...
This year's lineup of seminars lacks the obvious crowd-drawers of the past, like the one formerly offered by Henry Rosovsky. But, as program official Jerry DeNault says, he never turns down a nobel laureate or any other big-named, tenured prof for a seminar slot...
...exaggerate. About half of those who apply do end up in a seminar. Plenty of first-years are accepted into one of their choices (as I was) and end up having a great experience (that was me, too). But last year, more than 400 students were turned awry from the program to which they had been drawn by relentless advertising by upperclass students, proctors and the administrators of the program itself...