Word: coring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buildings main hall; take a look before they clear it away.) Visually speaking, they're right: Sanders turns out to be a pretty impressive place to do Shakespeare. All that dark wood and those long, ominous shadows, which create such a terrible atmosphere for trying to remain awake during Core classes, turn out to be just about right of Hamlet...
...dropping their advanced standing in the "special senior section" of the seating for Nelson Mandela's speech. In fact, a lot of the student proponents for advanced standing hold it up as the perfect way of beating the system--one convenient piece of paper good for better odds in Core lotteries, improved housing assignments and a raft of other benefits only sketchily associated with its actual academic function...
Many students are conveniently "undecided" about their concentrations when trying to weasel into this or that department's introductory course. Helen Vendler's core class may be so oversubscribed that each seat occupied by an auditor translates directly into a legitimate student forced to stand through lecture--but nobody checks credentials at the door, so why not soak up some literary culture...
Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis said the Core requires anthropology concentrators to take Foreign Cultures because none of the concentrators study modern foreign cultures and some do not study foreign cultures...
Swaid said that students who did not need core credit were not admitted, and that if all anthropology concentrators who lotteried were admitted, it was accidental...