Loss of the Core?

[NotAJock2Day]

<p>[More</a> Than Lip Service | Columbia Spectator](<a href=“http://columbiaspectator.com/2009/01/28/more-lip-service]More”>http://columbiaspectator.com/2009/01/28/more-lip-service)</p>

<p>My friend and I are a bit confused about this article. It’s strange, the implication seems that 6 classes will be replaced by 1. I haven’t seen any discussion or uproar about this (not to say the Core is perfect), though it may be that the article is only a day old.</p>

<p>Thoughts/Reinterpretations?</p>

[Shraf]

<p>it’s a joke.</p>

<p>you’re an idiot for not realizing that from this:</p>

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Renowned Kant scholar Patricia Kitcher will kick off the Frontiers of Humanities semester with an **introductory lecture on grammar and punctuation, titled “Semicolon or Colon? The Grand Grammatical Mystery.” **Former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand will follow with a series of lectures on why poetry does not always have to rhyme. The semester will conclude with a discussion by Mahmood Mamdani, recently named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world’s top-100 intellectuals, on the names and locations of countries in Africa.

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[Hanajima22]

<p>You might want to read past the second paragraph of articles in the future. XD</p>

<p>On the topic of the actual article, I agree that Frontiers needs some serious revision.</p>

[NotAJock2Day]

<p>Haha, she approached me seriously concerned so I never even considered it being a joke. Stupid stupid stupid… </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

[Shraf]

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You might want to read past the second paragraph of articles in the future. XD

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<p>the part i quoted IS from the second paragraph!</p>

[Hanajima22]

<p>^Thus “past the second paragraph,” as in farther than that…</p>

[jcy2009]

<p>So is science really that much on the backburner at columbia if you aren’t an engineering student?</p>

[Columbia2002]

<p>What crappy journalism. I checked my calendar to make sure this wasn’t April Fool’s Day, and checked the URL to make sure this wasn’t the Onion. There’s better way for the authors to make points.</p>

[Hanajima22]

<p>“So is science really that much on the backburner at columbia if you aren’t an engineering student?”</p>

<p>No, but you have to seek it out yourself. For some reason humanities majors often get advised to take the “science classes for non-science people,” so you have to be wary of classes like that if you want “real” science. But there are plenty of good classes you can take in the College if you look.</p>

[cerberus08]

<p>^^ Science isn’t on the backburner at all. There are lots of scinece students at CC, and you don’t have to “seek it out”. It’s there for the taking. Columbia has a reputation of being an econ/poli sci heavy school, but that doesn’ mean science majors are less visible.</p>

[thebeef]

<p>Oh wow, I didn’t read that article carefully enough. I thought it was real and even told people about it. However, I don’t think I’m being unfair when I say that the article was a pretty poorly written piece of satire…</p>

[Skraylor]

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What crappy journalism. I checked my calendar to make sure this wasn’t April Fool’s Day, and checked the URL to make sure this wasn’t the Onion. There’s better way for the authors to make points.

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<p>Meh. I know both of the authors but even so I wouldn’t call it ‘crappy journalism’. I think the fact that it’s in the spec and not the Blue&White/Jester/etc. makes it seem a bit out of place. </p>

<p>I will say that the spec, this semester, made some REALLY weird choices with their weekly columnists. A lot of people from last semester apparently didn’t bother reapplying so I guess they had to make a bit of a stretch from their normal programming…</p>

[Denzera]

<p>I look forward to the Fed’s april 1st issue, the Colombia Spectador.</p>