In Preparation for Prefrosh Weekend, Profs Want Your Questions

Picture Harvard in late April. Annenberg is overcrowded, red folders abound, and an unusually large number of dull lectures and presentations are advertised across campus. It all adds up to one thing—prefrosh weekend.

This year, Visitas, formerly called the April Visiting Program, is taking a new approach to planning those annual lectures designed to entice prospective students. Instead of letting professors pick the topics of the talks which they deliver to introduce students to the academic offerings at Harvard, the Undergraduate Admissions Council is asking current undergraduates what "big questions" they would like faculty members to answer.

The student who suggests the three best questions will win a $10 gift card to J.P. Licks. Since there's a prize on the line, Flyby tried to think of a few ideas. What's going on the Middle East? Where is the Middle East, actually? How do WikiLeaks happen? Why is Charlie Sheen still on TV?

If you think you have ideas that are better than these, submit them before noon today!