Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNDERGRADUATES CAN EXPECT "the great unveiling," as some Faculty members have aptly coined the announcement of the 1979-80 Core Curriculum, within the next few weeks. Dean Rosovsky's Standing Committee on the Core will soon finish approving courses for next year. But students can only guess what lies beneath the veil. The committee, under Rosovsky's direction, kept the development of the courses under wraps. By maintaining maximum security on the committee's proceedings, the committee has ensured that students play an insignificant role in creating the Core Curriculum...
...students do sit on the Standing Committee. Each of the five subcommittees (representing the five areas of the Core) also have two undergraduate members. These students, however, have non-voting status on the committees. Rosovsky argues that the status is meaningless because the committees rarely take formal votes. If this is the case, one wonders why the students are barred from voting...
Furthermore, the student members are not permitted to discuss any aspects of the proposed courses with fellow undergraduates. The committee members can therefore only hazard conjectures as to which possible Core offerings students might support; they are hard pressed to act as legitimate representatives...
...student committee members are indeed chosen--at least indirectly--as representatives. At Rosovsky's request, the Educational Resources Group (ERG) elected these students from its ranks. ERG members, in turn, are elected yearly in the Houses. Conveniently ignoring this selection process, Rosovsky insists that students on the Core Committees should just express their ideas and not try to act as spokesmen for the student body. If Rosovsky just wanted random ideas, he could have bypassed ERG and picked the members arbitrarily...
Berman failed to observe that Rosovsky's group is not a congressional committee; the Core does not affect national security. Allowing students to consider proposed Core courses before they are approved will hardly endanger lives...