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...obsolete. The old regulations require summa recipients to earn two A or A-grades in each of the General Education divisions outside their major. With the phasing out of the General Education program in the coming years, satisfying that requirement would soon prove problematic. "The Committee on Undergraduate Education [CUE] and the Faculty Council were sympathetic to the purpose of that requirement, but hesitated to create a system that requires the allocation of courses to areas after the General Education fields disappear." Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and chief author of the new legislation Steven E. Ozment wrote...
GIVEN THE current system's conspicuous shortcoming, one can only wonder why reform was so long in the making. Three years ago, a proposal by then Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 was blocked on the floor of a Faculty meeting. The Faculty" returned the proposal to the CUE for further study. The issue of reform seemed destined to languish in a bureaucratic twilight zone until Ozment entered University Hall in September and revived the cause...
...cue, the central banks of West Germany, Britain, France and all the other major industrial countries launched a joint campaign to defend their currencies by selling dollars on the exchange markets. Though the Federal Reserve would not publicly confirm it, the U.S. joined the battle to rein in the dollar. Said a senior Administration official: "We spent tens of millions and the Europeans spent hundreds." By Wednesday afternoon the banks had unloaded at least $1.5 billion and sent the high-flying dollar into a nose dive. It dropped 4% compared with the mark and franc and 6% against the British...
...teachings, because it is "more attractive" toe federal and corporate sponsors. Harvard and other universities across the nation could seriously be damaging the nation's prospects for scientific advancements. At Harvard, the introductory level science courses, such as Physics I and Chemistry to, are noted for their appallingly low CUE Guide ratings. The need for a stronger basic curriculum looms larger as a growing number of reports point out the failure of high schools to train students in those areas...
...Faculty and the CUE should take their cue from the Undergraduate Council: it's time to put the reading back in reading period...