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...that the Core Standing Committee has been dissolved and approving Core classes will be the responsibility of the Gen Ed committee, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, who also chairs the Gen Ed committee, has said that he is looking to make sure that more department classes are approved for Core credit...
Incoming freshmen officially are entering under the Core, but can switch to Gen Ed next year if they wish...
...meantime, the options in some Core categories are not promising. Only three classes counting toward the Literature and Arts C requirement will be taught this fall...
...that doesn't mean that class is no longer an issue. Cameron's signature policies, the defining core of Cameronism - if, despite his protests, such a thing exists - are geared to improving social mobility and fixing what he calls "broken Britain." Like all Conservatives, he wants a smaller state and a disciplined approach to public finances. He also preaches a bigger role for the community and the importance of fostering a greater sense of social responsibility. His focus, he says, is on "welfare, schools and families. If you want to mend the broken society, these are the things you have...
Cameron once described himself as "the heir to Blair." The comment, over dinner at the 2005 Tory party conference, horrified hard-line colleagues who suspected his brand of Conservatism concealed a dangerously liberal core. What he meant, says Cameron, is that "politicians have to understand what has come before." That includes recognizing strengths - and weaknesses. Cameron voted, with reluctance, for military action in Iraq and later sent constituents copies of a speech Blair made in support of the invasion. "The problem with Blair is that he was a liberal interventionist without a hand brake," says Cameron now. "There...