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...rules are a generalization of the so-called "Nat Sci bypass" which allowed students-mostly Nat Sci concentrators-to avoid having to take introductory Gen Ed courses if they were taking at least two departmental courses in the natural sciences. Now all students will be relieved of the basic Gen Ed requirement in their own areas of concentration, and will be able to avoid it in the other two areas if they'd rather take twice as many departmental courses...
Warning that if these proposals were accepted "general education courses will dwindle and die," Wilcox advised that the "Nat Sci bypass", which permits a student to substitute two departmental full courses in the sciences for the normal Nat Sci full course, be extended to the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences...
...large institutions are shifting their business away from the exchange. The amount of stock traded in blocks of 10,000 shares or more off the exchange floor has risen in the past two years from 28% to 37% of the total. The mutual funds would have less incentive to bypass the central marketplace if they could get either lower rates or membership in the exchange...
Book publishers are not letting the confessional fervor bypass them, either. Books by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Betty Friedan are being reprinted and vigorously promoted. Even the Coop has set aside a special table for book on the Women's Movement, as if they were the hottest item since Psychedelic...
...interest him, and his life-style scarcely changed. With his tabby cats, his violin, and his watercolors hung out to dry like dish towels on a clothesline in his studio, Klee had always seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde. From boyhood, he had managed to ignore or bypass every emotional crisis that might have distracted him from his art. He shrugged off the end of one love affair with Teutonic priggishness. "Since only a few weak poems in the popular vein remained of that adventure," the young artist noted in his diary in 1901, "I was once again...