Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...requirement that all Core courses have completely random lotteries, without giving preference to certain concentrators or to seniors and juniors, would establish a fair guidelines for choosing applicants, given that after this year all students will need the to take same number of Core courses. The only exception to this rule should be that made by Stephen Gay Gould in his perennial lottery for Science B-16, "History of the Earth and of Life": all applicants who have been rejected twice in previous years should receive preferred status for admission...
...WITH ANY RULE, there will, of course be exceptions. There are courses, such as Lit & Arts A-40 ("Shakespeare") or Social Analysis 10 ("Principles of Economics"), which are Core offerings, but which are also required for particular concentrations. But Leither of these courses has held lotteries so far, and should such a departmentally-required course appear which must be limited, the Core committee could establish a standard procedure for lotteries...
...exclusion of non-concentrators--all seem unfair to those not making the cut. And they're right. It's true that if thousands throng to "Spots and Dots," the teaching staff can hardly be expected to multiply by a factor of 10 in two weeks' time. Director of the Core Curriculum Edward T. Wilcox said recently that the University "will continue to try, but we have been unable to find enough qualified TA's for a lot of the Core courses...
...subscribed. These included Studio Arts, Science B-16, "Rice Paddies" (Historical Studies A-14), and the perennial favorite Spots and Dots (Lit & Arts B-16). Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," manages every year to accommodate between 800 and 1000 students Students pay $15,000 a year, fulfill the Core requirements, and ought to be permitted to take the courses they want...
...attract students from all regions and back grounds with a wide variety of interests and skills both to enhance and to brighten the undergraduate experience and for socially strategic reasons. It is as a result of this policy that there are jock or preppie or wonk Houses. With its Core Curriculum, the College has tried to broaden the minds of its students and insure that they emerge with more than highly specialized knowledge. But when these praiseworthy practices are applied to House and social life, they cease to be admirable and become forms of social engineering. While Harvard can strive...