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Good luck to Bud Bailyn, as he works on the Core...
Heading the History subcommittee is Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History, who was influential in redesigning Wilson's Core to look more like the version the Faculty passed last spring...
...Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History and chairman of the new History subcommittee, was influential in defining the five areas of study the Faculty eventually approved, and in designing the History requirement...
...Appplied Mathematics and author of a counter-proposal to thbe Core, poked fun at what he saw as the Core's attempt to eliminate ignorance in all areas. Said Bossert: "The summed ignorance of this particular Faculty is evidence that ignorance is debilitating neither professionally nor personally." However Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History and another Core architect, who apparently does not care for Bossert's sense of humor, replied simply that the Core is not an attempt to survey all the major areas of knowledge," but instead a highlight of the most essential, "core" areas...
...process of selecting which areas should be included in the Core that raised a second group of objections. Wilson's task force had originally recommended an arrangement of five areas; by the time Bailyn and other members of the Faculty finished with the report, however, the five-step attack had undergone mitosis, not to mention a considerable mutation. The final Faculty Council report reshuffled Wilson's original five areas, and then split each in two--effectively making each student reponsible for a half-course in eight out of ten subdivisions of the Core. As in Gen Ed, the student would...