Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some departments are having trouble finding enough graduate students to teach sections and tutorials. Keenan said the problem will become more acute in the next few years as enrollment continues to decline and teaching fellows are needed for the Core Curriculum...
...creation of the Educational Resources Group (ERG) has helped CUE appreciably. ERG advises CUE and selects its student members. Consisting of about two dozen House representatives, it meets frequently and is presently working on the implementation of the Core Curriculum. ERG members persuaded the Faculty Council to adopt several amendments to the Core last year that may be beneficial to students...
...even ERG's efforts to influence the Core have received fire from students. A poll last year showed that a majority of students opposed the Core. Some students thought CUE members should not have supported the Core even with amendments. Rosovsky, however, praised CUE and ERG efforts in connection with the Core. He said CUE did not ignore student opinion when it supported the Core, since students never made their feelings about it very clear...
...some extent, Rosovsky was right. A forum allowing students to express their discontent with the Core attracted only a handful of people. However, the forum was held the same night as a torchlight march against Harvard's investment policy...
...supermarkets in the early '70s in the form of the UPC (Universal Product Code), the odd, stamp-size box of black bars and numbers printed on just about everything from soup cans to the covers of TIME magazines sold in the U.S. The UPC was to be the core of a system that would not only keep up-to-date records on inventories and prices, but also eliminate cash register errors, since check-out clerks would tot up a shopper's bill by merely passing the purchases over an optical scanner capable of "reading" the code...