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...stroke, which could lead to loss of memory or speech, paralysis, and even death. For this type of patient, few treatments are available, though doctors sometimes prescribe anticoagulants to lessen the chance of clotting. Yet, since 1967, teams of skilled neurosurgeons have been performing exquisitely delicate brain-artery bypass operations on such stroke-prone patients. They have also been meticulously monitoring these patients, comparing their progress with that of others who have not been surgically treated. Their preliminary finding: the operation appears to offer protection against strokes-the U.S.'s third leading cause of death -but further evaluation...
...Bypass: The core proposal allows for no departmental bypasses (except for non-science concentrating pre-meds) of basic core courses outside one's general field. We contend that it is possible for a student to gain the appropriate "habits of thought" through sequences of departmental courses that could be approved by the core committees. Such bypasses would also reduce the size of the inevitably large core classes...
...addition, students would have greater leeway in experiencing higher level courses than allowed for in the limited number of electives students will face under the proposal. Students also could, in this way, fill core requirements with various desired full courses. Furthermore, this type of bypass would provide the equivalent of second exemptions for interdisciplinary concentrators, who now only have...
...council has also apparently rejected, without benefit of a vote; an ERG proposal that would have allowed students to bypass core requirements by taking two departmental offerings in place of one core course...
...idea that scientists should be introduced to the social implications of science and the moral issues it involves. But two years after Sputnik frightened America into expanding its science education program, the Faculty stopped using the historical method in its Gen Ed sciences courses and allowed science students to bypass Gen Ed science courses altogether. Apparently the Faculty was persuaded by a Faculty committee's call for "a larger pool of scientists," and allowed their liberal arts values to slide...