Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report is the product of efforts of five committees the Faculty created last spring to evaluate and formulate curricula for each of the proposed core curriculum areas...
...transmitters relayed the collected information to Soviet ground stations. But in mid-December, Cosmos 954 began to droop in its orbit, slipping closer to earth with each revolution. The Soviets sent the satellite a radio command that should have caused it to separate into three sections, with the nuclear core soaring into an orbit up to 800 miles high, where it could circle for centuries-and yet still remain a lethal hazard if it finally returned to earth. But Cosmos 954 ignored the command...
This is a fair example of the author's wafting prose style. Phrases like "an awesome move toward humanness" and such gauzy generalizations as Communists "were like everybody else, only more so" swell throughout her pages. Yet the book does have a vital core. Gornick, an essayist for New York's Village Voice, stages her psychopolitical Liebestod with a living chorus of former Communist activists whom she interviewed in various parts...
Establishment of a core curriculum would probably remedy this problem by requiring students to choose between a few basic courses in addition to their electives. This would make it possible for related Expos courses to become a "standard feature," Byker said. The experimental sections supplement the basic Expos program, which for the past three years has offered classes emphasizing specific areas of writing such as fiction and literature...
Shpall has his own prediction of the future of the existing student government when and if a new government is formed. "Because of the core curriculum, CUE will be busier than ever," Shpall says. "However, it is conceivable that if this new group works responsibly and establishes it legitimacy, then the new student group can replace CHUL, or at least aid it. The breakfast poll, for instance, was done in direct response to our efforts and our complaints about representation. And if CHUL responds to us by increasing its communication with students, then that's half the battle...