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Just a few years ago, the course would have almost filled the lecture hall’s nearly 500 seats. But while other perennially popular Core classes—like Social Analysis 10 and Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—have kept their enrollments steadily in the hundreds for years, Cosmic Connections has dwindled to just 72 students this semester...
...size of the course more than doubled each time Hernquist repeated the course, in 2003 and 2004. By the fall of 2004, the course’s enrollment had risen above 400; it was that year’s largest science core...
...found that teaching a big core class like that was time consuming, and with all my duties I wasn’t able to devote as much concentration as I would have liked,” Hernquist says...
According to Sarah E. Wick ’10—who is currently enrolled in Cosmic Connections—the course’s rumored difficulty discouraged some students looking for an easier way to complete their Core requirement...
...Steve Scheffler, head of the Iowa Christian Alliance, said Romney has a good chance of splitting off some Evangelical voters because his platform has the necessary core beliefs: right to life, ban on gay marriage, school choice. "They're not a monolithic group," said Scheffler, who is also not endorsing a candidate this cycle. "They're basically bound together by very common positions on a variety of issues, but beyond that - putting those priorities in order of importance is not always a uniform of thought. Certainly other issues then come into play...