Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students who attended Thursday's meeting reported that Keenan said that by involving graduate students in the review, he hopes to avoid what he sees as a mistake of the architects of the Core Curriculum, who did not solicit undergraduate advice in the early stages of their review...
With the best of intentions, you inverted my views by 180° [July 31]. I believe that the world economy entered in 1972 the fifth Kondratieff upswing, not a downswing. At the core of this upswing is the prospect that the prices of energy, food, raw materials will fluctuate in a relatively higher range than in the previous downswing (1951-72). We shall have to try dealing with inflation more seriously than we now are. On the other hand, the Kondratieff upswing requires greatly enlarged investments in energy production and conservation, transport, water conservation and development, pollution control. When economists...
SAFETY. Only a handful of hysterics believe that a conventional nuclear plant could explode in a mushroom cloud and wipe out a city. But many fear less dramatic accidents, including "melt down," which could occur if a reactor lost the water used to control the temperature of its core, ruptured and released radioactive gas and other material. Many also worry about radioactive contamination and fear that those living near nuclear plants may be subject to constant and eventually deadly exposure to radiation...
Rosovsky talked about the Core, saying he felt "like a broken record." He called the Core a "quest for standards" that will provide students with a broad exposure to different areas of study...
Insuring strong applicant pools in the future "will take money, resources and innovative ideas such as the Core," Jewett said...