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...need for progress on the preliminary report of the Task Force on General Education becomes increasingly urgent, professors’ resistance to another prolonged debate over the issue of evaluations is understandable. But at the least, some professor should have opened the legislation to question to see if the critics of mandatory evaluations would ruin another faculty meeting with their renegade feelings...
Without McCain, Halsey had a much smaller force defending Leyte Gulf. Halsey—in a testament to his terrible tactical judgment—then took all his ships out of the gulf and sailed northward to chase a Japanese “decoy” task force. Meanwhile, Kurita and his battleships cruised into Leyte Gulf unmolested...
...task force charged with replacing Harvard’s Core curriculum has dropped its headline-grabbing proposal for a “Reason and Faith” requirement—a category that would have made Harvard the only Ivy to require its undergrads to study religion.The committeehas also suggested a new course requirement on “what it means to be a human being,” which some professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting criticized as a “grab bag” category.Students could fulfill this requirement with a course in areas...
...Facts We Hate, began the Harvard College Alliance for Rock and Roll. The organization aims to increase accessibility to the music scene and music resources on campus. Hufstedler is also an activist. She is an outspoken member of the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Trans Task Force, and an intern at the Women’s Center. She is a vegan, which she feels symbolically “makes people think about systems of oppression that extend beyond human ones.” “She’s very dedicated to things with the queer community...
...that the General Education task force has lost its faith in religion, the long-anticipated Gen Ed overhaul looks more like the Core than it has at any point during the four-year-long curricular review. The Faculty’s challenge, if and when the proposed curriculum is implemented, will be to recast the generation-old and much-maligned Core into a system with a radically different mission but an uncannily similar structure and nomenclature. The task force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating...