Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of Adams House students is currently polling residents of the house on their opinion of the proposed Core Curriculum in an effort to get a comprehensive student response to the curriculum...
Ross D. Boylan '81, member of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Core Curriculum, said yesterday that the poll probably wouldn't change anything. "The Faculty has a tendency to ignore almost anything," Boylan said...
...belief, however, that Harvard-Radcliffe is not only divided along racial lines and that other groups deserve affirmative action: Jewish students were asked to register for classes on a holy day a year ago, science concentrators would be required to take extra courses under the new Core Curriculum, commuter students were asked to return to large classes during the storm before public transportation was fully restored, and if any single group at Harvard-Radcliffe needs their acceptance reaffirmed it would have to be lesbians...
...DELEGATES to the Harvard-Radcliffe Constitutional Convention should be commended for their acute sense of the lack of any organized student voice, influence, or power in how Harvard is run. Our recent experiences with the Core Curriculum, in which the opposition of 65 per cent of the student body was ignored, and with Harvard's contribution to apartheid, in which the united petition of over 3000 students was ignored, expose the costs of having no leverage over the University...
Thank God for people like Dean Rosovsky who want to reinstate a "core curriculum" for Harvard's undergraduates [March 27]. I see no substance in the arguments of those who oppose him. We all want students to think for themselves, but this can best be done by studying the great thinkers of all time, which a good core curriculum will provide. Students and faculty can grow closer when they can share solid ideas based on rich academic backgrounds...