Word: cores
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Dean Henry Rosovsky's reform of the undergraduate curriculum--three years in the making, and usually lumped under the term "Core Curriculum"--held center stage for most of the year. Since last summer, when groups of Faculty members began to take the five broad areas of study recommended in the initial Core reports, and to shape them into definite elements of the "core of knowledge" that was the Faculty's announced goal, the significance of each step in the process was clear. The final result--a set of ten required course areas, of which students must take eight--came after...
...large, fuzzily defined, basic lecture courses. Others objected to the alleged lack of student consultation, maintaining that the students on CUE and ERG were not representative of the entire student body. More than 2500 undergraduates signed a petition asking for a delay of the Faculty vote on the Core plan, and a Crimson poll showed that almost 65 per cent of the College's student body opposed the proposal...
...along, however, most students realized that the final decision lay with the Faculty--a group that is, after all, Rosovsky's home turf. There was still a degree of opposition: several professors objected to the Core as an uncalled-for intrusion on academic freedom, or as an unrealistic attempt to teach students a little bit of everything. Some others felt that their disciplines had been left out in the calculation of requirements. Dissatisfaction ran especially high in the natural sciences; professors in the Division of Applied Sciences, for instance, voted 23-3 against the Core proposal in a straw vote...
...change that situation. Over a span of six months, convention delegates hashed out a charter for a new student government, featuring a Student Assembly and provisions for calling frequent campus-wide referenda on key issues. Spurred on by a feeling of student helplessness in the face of the impending Core Curriculum, delegates billed the proposed constitution as the only answer to the problem of Harvard students' institutional impotence...
...insistent clicking of camera shutters blends in with the polite chattering of typewriters in the background as Henry Rosovsky holds court in the News Office in Holyoke Center. An hour ago, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a new Core Curriculum for undergraduates, marking the end of four years of hard work, bargaining and cajoling for the dean. Now Rosovsky is King of the Hill, exulting in the moment of triumph, the questioning by the major newspaper reporters, the clicking of the shutters. President Bok enters and rewards Rosovsky with a bottle of his favorite cognac; the smile broadens...