Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to argue that the Gen Ed committee must pre-select the departmental courses an undergraduate can take to fulfill his Gen Ed requirements. The Committee must confront the question whether there is any inherent worth in a Gen Ed Course-and if there is it ought to persuade the Faculty. Because unless a convincing argument is made, the Faculty will probably not accept the Doty proposals or any compulsory Gen Ed program...
...Communication Through Typography exhibition properly, the first point is that material utilizing typographic design is an inescapable part of our culture. Industrial society needs great quantities of such material for newspapers, travel posters, corporation reports and their ilk. The individual exhibits are purposely pedestrian. They are things we confront every...
Judging from its press release, The Young Lovers is a frank, serious, yet sensitive "film" (not movie) about the moral dilemmas which confront today's college generation. It does its best to avoid some of the customary embarassing cliches. For instance, when the girl lets it be known that she's pregnant, her mother crinkles her sad but wise eyes and says, "You love him very much, don't you?" instead of calling the police. And the abortionist turns out to be a prosperous-looking physician instead of the usual touchless crone with a bent coat-hanger...
...define Gen Ed too precisely; after all, the Committee has worked for two years and considered a host of alternatives before reaching the published formulation. But we think it is naive of the Committee to expect a commitment to General Education from the Faculty when it fails to confront important questions of definition upon which the whole Gen Ed program must rest...
Some would confront...