"At times when we order books for the TFs--thedesktop copies--the books have not arrived yet,"says Literature and Arts A-19 head TF AnnaStavrakopoulou. Core TFs order their own "desktopcopies" from the core office.

"We cannot buy them since it is kind ofdifficult to be reimbursed [by the core office],"Stavrakopoulou says.

To solve problems of section coordination inlarge classes, most classes have weekly meetingsbetween section leaders and professors. But thelarge the class, the more difficult it is.

It's often "hard to get sections coordinated,"says Jonathan Kawamura, a teaching fellow inScience A-35.

The result is that many students findbadly-planned sections are no help in their coreclasses.

For instances, Ethan N. Nasr '96 says hisScience A-35 and Science B-16 sections addednothing to the lectures in the classes.

"They're not saying anything...new," Nasr says."They become almost like mandatory office hours."

But students' most persistent complaintabout the core's structure is how few courseoptions it offers.

"Harvard says, `look at all these wonderfulcore classes we have,' but so few are offered eachsemester," says Christopher Basaldu '94. "Peopleare expected to spend 25 percent of their timetaking two percent of Harvard's offered courses."

The limited offerings are the result of corepolicy. According to Harvard's guide to the corecurriculum, "the total number of courses that maybe offered under any area is deliberately limitedto ten or twelve courses each year."

"One of the main problems is that we don't getmuch choice in what to take," says Antony R.Garcia '93-'94. "You look in the catalog and halfaren't given this year and others aren't giventhis semester."

As a result, students are often stuck inclasses which they never would take voluntarily.

"In Historical Study B, I had trouble finding acourse and ended up taking something I hadmarginal interest in," says Samuel A. Hilton '94.

"You take the one that sounds least boring,"says Lisa M. Robinson '94.

It is difficult to make uninterested studentspay attention or get anything out of a class theyhave no interest in, teaching fellows and studentssay.