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...Architectural Sciences Department, acting in good faith, has promised to adjust its concentration requirements towards those of the new major. For example, under certain circumstances the department will grant permission to substitute its math and physics requirement with courses from the much wider list of Visual Studies required and optional related courses. Also all Vis Stud courses will be equally open to Arch Sci concentrators next year. It is important that the old department let its concentrators make their programs of study as much like those of the new department as possible...
Freshmen, arriving, as they do, a week earlier, would not be intolerably hard put to adjust or to choose courses. In fact, it may not be unreasonable to expect that a dose of high-schoolish discipline early in the year before the Great Dissolution sets in may even be psychologically helpful to freshmen...
...Johnson to complete the record of domestic legislation that he wants to stand as history's yardstick for his presidency. In foreign affairs, it could bring more intense efforts to end the war?either by negotiations or by heavier fighting. In any event, the President no longer has to adjust his policies, as he put it, "to win a primary or a state convention or please some party leader...
...program this year is no longer primarily concerned with helping freshmen adjust to their first few months here, Paul, W. Sugarman '69, one of the Associates, said. Rather, the focus will be on the Spring semester of the freshman year and the Fall semester of the sophomore year...
...which is the accepted motive, and rightly so, for the current proposal. Moreover, this concentration in efforts by students to three courses will almost surely be accompanied by an implicit reinterpretation by the faculty of what constitutes the requirements for a course; the faculty almost surely will fairly quickly adjust its requirements so as to match student efforts, each course constituting a one third load. In short, only a far more drastic change (for example, to a complete or nearly complete pass-fail system) would provide any measure of relief from the incentives which arise from the interpretation of grades...