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2A - Wednesday, November 28, 2007 W
MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY:
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FRIDAY:
The Extremist

ROSE REMEMBRANCE

It's pretty random

Course enrollment appointments
are finally here, and students are
scrambling to create their ideal
schedules. But browsing through
the course catalog sometimes feels
like trying to decode a cryptic mes-
sage.
So how exactly does Introduction
to World Politics become PoliSci
160?
Esrold Nurse, assistant dean of
Student Academic Affairs in LSA,
said there's no rhyme or reason to
course numbering aside from the
fact that 100 and 200 level courses
are introductory and higher-level
courses are more advanced.
"Generally, courses numbered
100-199 are considered to be intro-
ductory courses and courses from
200-299 are considered interme-
diate and courses from 300-499
are considered upper level," Nurse
said.
CRIME NOTES
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extinguisher b
taken from dorm s1
WHERE: West Quad W
WHEN: Monday at about 10:30 St.
a.m. W
WHAT: A fire extinguisher a.n
was stolen from West Quad W
the Department of Public in
Safety reported. A West Quad re
facilities employee reported fil
the theft. Police have no sus- re
pects. w
Graffiti found T
in USB s
WHERE: Undergraduate Sci- i
ence Building
WHEN: Monday at about 8:50 W
a.m. de
WHAT: "Clock" was found W
written in marker in the pent- a.:
house of the Undergraduate W
Science Building, DPS report- wi
ed. The graffiti was reported th
by a University staff member. stc
Police have no suspects. it1

Nurse said that though this is a
general rule, course numbers some-
times vary because departments are
responsible for determining their
own numbering structure.
"Some departments have intro-
ductory courses at the 200 level,
like American Culture or History, as
well as 100 level courses," she said.
But how do professors decide
which classes will be more
advanced?
Nurse said courses with higher
numbers typically have fewer stu-
dents, a more narrow focus and
require students to analyze topics
more closely.
For example, Nurse said there's
a difference between CompLit 122
and CompLit 140.
"An introductory course with a
higher number is not higher level in
the sense that it's not introductory,"
he said. "It's higher level in that
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ructure Grace
HEN: Monday at about 10:50 types
m. WHC
HAT: A car hit a brick wall ciatio
a parking structure, DPS WHE
ported. A passerby unaf- WHE
iated with the University
ported the accident. No one
as injured.
Spy
Chief tries to use rel
tolen debit card art
n Markley WHA
Winn:
HERE: Mary Markley Resi- about
nce Hall avera
HEN: Monday at about 1:20 role ii
M. WHC
HAT: A male unaffiliated versit
ith the University reported the S
at his credit card had been and D
olen, DPS reported, and that WHE
load been used in Markley. WHH
theat:

it will have more of a focus and be
more in-depth."
To enroll in many higher-level
courses, students need prerequi-
sites, which are usually introduc-
tory courses. However, there are
exceptions.
"A course might be focused so
narrowly that a prerequisite, though
helpful, doesn't mean that you can't
do it," Nurse said.
Even though course-numbering
structures vary by college, Nurse
said LSA's way of choosing course
numbers is pretty standard.
"You're not going to find a 400-
level course at any institution that a
first-year student would be recom-
mended to take," he said.
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A Cuban medical student holds red roses during a
march markint the 136th annoversary of the execution of
eight medicine students by the Spanish colonial govern-
ment in Havana.

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AT: A screening of "The
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about Asian women
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AIDS movie
screening
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of "Out of Control: AIDS in
Black America," a film that
details the AIDS epidemic
and how it affects America's
black population. A discus-
sion will follow the film.
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Affairs
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Folk singer at
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Iceland is the world's best
countryto livein, according
to a United Nations study
ranking countries according
to wealth, life expectancy and
education levels. Sierra Leone
is the worst, according to the
study. The United States is
12th.
A reverend in White-
wood, S.D., is pressuring
the City Council there
to change the name of a street
because it does not lend itself to
a family-oriented atmosphere,
The Associated Press reported.
The street, Hooker Street, was
named for Civil War general
Joseph Hooker.
Genetic evidence supports
the theory that North
America was settled by
people who crossed a land
bridge across the Bering Strait,
according to a University study
released yesterday.

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Jonathan D. Jansen is the immediate past and first black dean of education at the University of Pretoria in South Africa; he has
written about these experiences in Black Dean (Harvard Educational Review, Fall 2005). At present he is Fulbright Scholar at
Stanford University where he is completing a book on The Politics of Memory in South Africa, examining how white South
African students remember and enact the past. His recent books include patterns of desegregation in white working class
schools (with Saloshna Vandeyar, University Press of America, 2008) and on second thoughts, a collection of writings (2007,
Actua Press) on the transition to democracy after apartheid.

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