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After four years and innumerable committees we finally have a fundamentally new general education curriculum. Such finality should be welcomed, but however glad we may be that the Preliminary Report of the Task Force on General Education has been released, it is, in its current form, a thoroughly bad idea...
...entirely flat. I might care to hear professional dancers talk about struggles that are actually theirs, but when Katie W. Johnson ’07, as Cassie, says “I need a job” with tears in her eyes, it rings false.This cast has the unenviable task of making a postmodern, self-aware show work as just a regular show. When they get the emotional connections right, the results are exhilarating.Barry A. Shafrin ’09 is a clear stand-out. As Paul, a shy, worried dancer with a troubled past, Shafrin gives the audience?...
...General Education recommendations, which were crafted over the summer by a task force co-chaired by Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, still have “a lot of room for improvement,” said Menand, the Bass professor of English and American literature and language...
There is much to praise in the new Report of the Committee on General Education. It is original, thoughtful, and well-written, and reflects considerable work on the part of our colleagues on the Task Force on General Education. The entire Harvard community should be grateful for the progress they have made and the issues they have asked us to address. I have two reservations, however. The final report will attract wide attention in academia and in the press, where it will be read not for its specific recommendations, but as a once-in-a-generation statement on the nature...
...have already begun to (or soon will) provide a forum for development and exchange that no pre-existing entity can provide. But finding such organizations requires convincing a broad spectrum of stakeholders that such a move is for the benefit of the whole University, and this is no easy task...