Academics

“I love Lit Hum. I just wished that after seeing Dante in hell and going to the lighthouse with James Ramsay, I could have rafted down the Mississippi with Huck Finn as well.”
—Lanbo Zhang, CC ’14, associate editorial page editor

“Cheating breaks the bonds and taints the openness that is essential to Lit Hum and to an honest dialogue among equals. It’s a kind of violence against all of us.”
—Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy and the chair of Literature Humanities.

“As regulations about which graduate students can teach increase, there are bound to be larger classes and, consequently, less involved discussion in class ... we need to strenuously reassert the importance of a Core Curriculum defined by intimate class sizes and over-qualified professors.”
—Derek Turner, CC ’12, opinion columnist

“Here’s my latest, modest proposal: Take four courses per term, and add a fifth just often enough to graduate.”
—David Helfand, chair of the department of astronomy

“Those who experience [emotional paralysis]—among them, Contemporary Civilization students—are left feeling more paralyzed because they crave answers they cannot find.”
—Jelani Harvey, CC ’12