Word: cored
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...Faculty Council's December decision to eliminate the Advanced Placement (A.P.) exemption to the Science Core requirement is a disturbing departure from the Council's stated commitment to reducing requirements. The change, which will not affect current students and will probably be implemented for the Class of 2003, prevents students who have scored a 4 or 5 on one of the A.P. science exams from placing out of either the Science A or B core requirement...
...Council's reason for eliminating the exemption--that high school A.P. classes do not provide the introduction to scholarly disciplines that the Core classes do--is a poor excuse for burdening students who have strong science backgrounds with yet another, arguably useless, requirement...
Though the Core's philosophy, to provide a diverse introduction to various areas of study, is a good one in theory, in practice it is a different story. Because of the questionable quality of many Core classes, we support any opportunity for exemption from them. Until now, it had seemed that the Council was similarly committed to freeing students from the weight of requirements. Apparently, though, a misguided belief in the need for college instruction in science disciplines for which A.P. classes prepare students equally well has gotten the better of the Council's members...
However, the procrastinator can take the crunch-time of exams as a blessing in disguise and amend her behavior to minimize procrastination and hit that unopened Core textbook. It will be difficult; old habits (especially ones with the short-term thrill that procrastination possesses) die hard. But if sufficiently motivated, the procrastinator can suck it up and take the plunge this reading period (all those exams and papers will drive an unproductive soul to desperate measures) and go up against the mother of GW haunts: Cabot library...
...source close to the discussions who insisted on anonymity said today's meeting might not focus on core issues, because negotiators on both sides believe they are not ready for them...