Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, the Faculty Council's attempts to integrate student opinion into discussions of the proposed Core Curriculum have thus far proven unsuccessful. While publicly encouraging students to work through existing student-faculty committees such as the Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Faculty Council has also rejected the concept of direct student representation on the Core Committees, which will devise the actual courses for the new curriculum...
...concept of Clint Eastwood as the justice-bent dope is more important than Richard Dreyfuss as the awestruck moron being carted off to Mars where everything will be just fine...
...Core in fact represents a disturbing move away from the traditional, cherished concept of a "liberal education;" the proposal's rigid requirements simply do not allow students enough freedom to gain what they see as a balanced education...
...answers to these complex questions that the curriculum report provides exude a confidence that makes them immediately suspect. The rigidity of the guidelines for the proposed core courses suggests that the Harvard Faculty feels it has a monopoly on the ability to understand the real meaning of the vague concept of education...
Probably the single most important concept that the convention has dealt with is representation. The new student government simply must be representative of student opinion to effectively portray them and help shape University policy...