Word: core
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...upper-class students as it is to integrate or, as the case may be, uplift members of minority groups. These two goals, though, are incompatible. The former places the minority student in the position of being an intellectual diversion for others. Like the Foreign Cultures requirement in the Core, the minority student is programmed into the educational equation as just another variable to broaden the horizons of the average law school or Wall Street-bound undergraduate. The latter purpose of diversity demands that Black students absorb the ethos of the school and find a place within the Harvard tradition...
...member of the faculty is looking from the inside, Rosovsky is. The 59-year-old Polish native has experienced almost every aspect of Harvard faculty life from his years as a graduate student to dean of the Faculty, during which he established the current Core curriculum. Yet, at no point in his Harvard career has he seen himself as fitting into one niche, he says...
...keeping with this philosophy, Rosovsky says that his being a Corporation member has not changed relations with his students or colleagues. He speculates that most of the students in his everpopular Core course Historical Studies A-14, "Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization: Japan," do not "have the faintest notion that I am a member of the Corporation...
Future autopsies will probably reveal that the senior class contained that only hard core divestment activists left at Harvard. The freshmen which had voted for Reagan were now juniors who refused to replace the seniors now preoccupied with theses and getting jobs at Arthur D. Little...
...have opened the doors of the formerly all-male school to women in 1972. Today about one-third of Notre Dame's students are female. To replace what he once described as "academic programs encrusted over the decades," Hesburgh insisted that students take an unusually extensive requirement of core courses (currently 39 hours out of the baccalaureate's 120), and he held to that principle through the curriculum-battering...