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...once you've gotten there the chemistry courses are hardly worth it. Currently, there is general dissatisfaction with the curriculum -- especially lower level courses -- offered by the Chemistry Department. And these grumblings are more valid than the normal gripes of the lazy pre-med or the over-zealous chem concentrators...
...problem is that the discipline of chemistry has outgrown the meager number of lower level chemistry courses that are now offered. The interests of the students who take these courses have become so divergent that they cannot be handled by the present basic sequence of chemistry courses: Chem 1 or 6, Chem 20, and Chem 60. The pre-med finds much of the material that is presented irrelevant to his main interest -- bio-chemistry. The chem concentrator is held back by the large number of relatively uninterested pre-meds in his classes. The instructors are faced with the problem...
There are exceptions. Most students applaud Chem 6, and those few in Chem 11 and 12 grumble about the teaching but are enthusiastic about its basic premises. Dissatisfaction appears to center around the large second-and third-year courses -- Chem...
...this reason, it is important that the different approaches offered be kept within the framework of one course, with the exception of a small accelerated group like the present Chem 11-12. The staff could offer variety in a course like Chem 20 by holding sections every week or every other week, where the pure chemist could invstigate mechanisms of reactions and the pre-med could examine the chemistry of hormones. For most lecture meetings, the groups would fuse...
Before Chu Chem opens in New York, months of concentrated rehearsals, out-of-town playing of previews will precede it. The theater, as you have occasionally pointed out, is in a sad state. But what is the state of journalism that forms a judgment before the play is presented? CHERYL CRAWFORD AND MITCH LEIGH...