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...reforms, prepared for the Faculty by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, require every full-time Faculty member to teach a minimum of one tutorial each term. In addition, the legislation asks professors to supervise all tutorials taught by graduate students and to offer special seminars in lieu of graduate-taught junior tutorials. The legislation also mandates a student-faculty committee in each department to oversee its tutorial program and recommend changes to the department's head tutor and chairman...
...Bowersock has stated "enforcing was a word I never intended to use in connection with these reforms." Persuading, he adds, might be more appropriate. "We can't knock heads together in the university," Bowersock argues. "That's not the way we work." But without a few sharp raps on some professorial pates, the tutorial program can never work...
...Bowersock also cited other examples of "fringe" courses for which students have received credit in past years. "We have had students taking flying lessions and learning ballroom dancing," he said...
...Bowersock said last year's proposal to limit the range of courses in the program was probably viewed as "too narrow" by some. A representative review panel, if proposed, "would be able to decide in controversial cases--if a representative group though the multiflex was a good course, then we could have it," Bowersock said...
...review panel "would act as kind of a braking mechanism," Bowersock said, adding he thought most of the projects were valuable. "Many students take music lessons," he said. "That used to be controversial but is now pretty well accepted," Bowersock added...