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...Berman's British-American Repertory Company (BARC), on the other hand, acts a bit self-conscious throughout the play, and exaggerates the caricaturing native to the script. To be fair, some of the actors in the company restrain themselves, but they only look-incongruous among their mugging colleagues...
Henrietta Attles, Sara Mae Berman, Glenn Koocher and Alice Wolf won the convention's endorsement for school committee...
...Berman failed to observe that Rosovsky's group is not a congressional committee; the Core does not affect national security. Allowing students to consider proposed Core courses before they are approved will hardly endanger lives...
Rosovsky counters, however, that making Core proposals public may endanger reputations. Confidentiality, he says, protects professors whose course suggestions the committee rejects. This attitude appears overly protective. As Berman said of his experience on the committee: "If there is one thing I have learned in the past year-and-a-half it's that above all Faculty members hate to be embarrassed. You've got to indulge them so they don't back out and just not offer the Core course...
According to Berman similar reasoning explains why no information has been released about the 38 courses the committee approved earlier this month. Berman explained, "Rosovsky thought it might look like we liked those courses better and the other professors might get offended." It begins to sound as though the committee is coddling sulking preschoolers, not working with distinguished adult scholars. The committee should place the Core's welfare--secured by encouraging broad discussion--above professors' tender egos...