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Comprising 25 percent of each undergraduate's program, the Core plays a major role in a Harvard education, ensuring that students experience a true spectrum of academic fields. The Faculty's Core Review Committee (CRC) has proposed to end the glaring omission of mathematics and quantitative reasoning from the current Core; this decision is to be applauded...
However, the CRC identified a serious problem with the Core that it has then failed to adequately address: the lack of flexibility it offers to students...
...Committee has stated that "constraints on choice should be sufficiently flexible to take account of the varied interests and capacities of both students and faculty." The current Core does not respect these varied "capacities," and neither would the Core as the CRC intends to amend...
...CRC attempts to refute the claim that Core courses are easier (and thus less rigorous educational experiences) by examining grading patterns: they note that mean Core grades are lower than the introductory departmental classes in similar fields. Apparently, the Committee has never read the "welcome" issue of the Crimson, mailed to incoming Harvard first-years, which explains the distinction between a "work gut" and a "grade...
...Departmental courses are not designed to fulfill the same purposes as Core courses," the CRC paper asserts, citing a lack of historical and literary background in non-Core departmental classes...