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Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith has urged professors to allow more of their departmental courses to count for Core credit, a move intented to provide options for students who will graduate under the Core as the curriculum transitions toward a new system of General Education. Smith said that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will loosen the requirements for departmental courses to fulfill Core requirements. The development, was officially announced in an e-mail sent by Smith to faculty members on Friday afternoon. Although the curricular review was completed this spring, the Gen Ed requirements that will replace...
...violinist’s talent. The score already dictated that Goto would take center stage, a position he filled with relish. Goto’s first notes were intense and pure, digging into the very heart of his Stradivari violin. The first movement, Allegro maestoso, was polished to the core. Every nuance had a purpose. Goto was even confident enough to gaze at the audience as his fingers seemingly played on their own.In an expansive cadenza at the end of the first movement, Goto effortlessly plucked left-hand pizzicatos and knocked off double-stops as if they were child?...
Current freshmen might not be able to graduate under new general education requirements focusing on real-world applications of knowledge, the professor in charge of implementing the program said yesterday. Backing away from plans that would have ended the 29-year-old Core Curriculum for all students in as few as two years, Jay M. Harris, chair of the faculty and student committee in charge of the transition, said that the Class of 2011 will definitely be able to graduate under the Core. “They may have the option of finishing under Gen Ed, but that I can?...
...core of the debate is a fundamental issue: Is building roads one of those things, like trade policy, that only the Federal Government should steer, or is there a better way? Forty-five percent of the money spent on American roads comes to the states from the Federal Government, but Congress hasn't raised the gas tax, its main source of highway funds, since 1993. And that's just fine by people who find the free market efficient and earmark-free...
...doubt the best opportunity for us to be heard—the only time when anyone actually listens to the UC president. Regardless of what some may think about his presentation, Petersen boldly, but respectfully, remained faithful to the very students he was elected to represent by the basic core of his argument. With rhetorical flourish, Petersen said: “This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must...