On Wednesday, Sept. 14, Whitman's newly-formed curriculum committee had its first meeting. Formed/conceived at the end of last year in order to grapple with the problem of course compression, the committee is working towards making the curriculum more _ for students.
The faculty originally planned to make a decision about having student representation on next year's curriculum committee at their meeting on Wed., March 30. However, discussion of other proposals prevented them from doing so.
First-year Jamie Edison can capture his spring pre-registration experience in a single word: stressful. Not only were two of his first-choice classes closed by the time his registration opened, so were his second-choice options. In order to take the minimum 12-credit course load, Edison had to sign up for a class that he had no plan nor desire in taking.
Despite this seemingly bleak registration experience, Edison considers himself lucky compared to the majority of first-year students who faced the brunt of an incredibly difficult pre-registration season.
