Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that Literature and Arts B isgenerally an unpopular Core area, and thissemester, there are a lot of good classesoffered," says Mark R. Hoffenberg '89, who wasfirst lotteried out of, and then accepted backinto, Fine Arts...
...quite a week for the Core Curriculum...
...time shopping period was over, the controversy surrounding Core lotteries had alienated students in practically every year and garnered more headlines in the Crimson than the changes in the freshman housing lottery. Unfortunately, to students hoping to enroll in a number of popular Core courses, this news was just as grim as the housing verdict was to freshmen...
Consider the following exercise in Core logic: Professor of Anthropology Irven DeVore, forced to limit enrollment of Science B-29 (commonly known as "Sex"), decided to cut 75 juniors from the class because he considered it a "freshman-sophomore course...
...reasoning seems strange. What criteria, one wonders, are used to categorize Core courses as "freshman-sophomore" courses? Level of difficulty, perhaps? Number of required readings? And isn't the Core supposed to be a section of the curriculum that permits any student to take any course offered, regardless of year? That priority seems to have gotten lost somewhere...