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...first time since the Core Curriculum was adopted in 1978, a course has been removed from the list of classes which fulfill the requirement...
Lecturer in Jewish Studies Erich Goldhagen's course, "Explaining the Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide," was taken out of the Core because "it did not meet the specific guidelines of a Core course," Professor James Q. Wilson, chairman of the committee which recommended the move, said yesterday. "While the course was well taught and a very popular course on the Holocaust, it did not concentrate enough on social theory," Wilson said...
...consensus of the committee that the course dealt too much with specific and incidental facts and not an approach to thinking," said Brian R. Melendez '86, a student member on the Core Committee on Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning...
Goldhagen's course, which did fulfill Core requirements in Social Analysis, is presently offered under General Education. "It is important to undertand that the course has not been dropped altogether from the curriculum," said Wilson...
...Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves-a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism's modernity. It declared that all visual experience could be set forth as a shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting's unconscious answer to the theory of relativity...