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...discussion on honors requirements is part of the committee's comprehensive review of academic regulations. The committee will also propose changes in the rules governing pass-fail courses and the reading period. The CUE will send the proposals to the Faculty...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education discussed yesterday a wide range of proposals for revising the criteria used in granting honors degrees. In a memorandum to CUE members, Sidney Verba, professor of Government and chairman of the committee noted that "the current honors rules have created a lot of dissatisfaction" because they are hard to understand and lead to seemingly arbitrary decisions and anomalous results. Verba called for a new set of rules "that is clear, predictable, and fair...
...completely disproportionate to the intended effect. They nullify it." In Bonn, officials privately called the approach heavy handed, fearing that it would attract attention to U.S. interests in Egypt, fan further Islamic unrest and lend substance to Soviet charges that the Egyptian government is an American puppet. Right on cue, the Soviet press accused the Administration of "crude interference" in Egypt's affairs and insisted that the U.S. was "feverishly stepping up war preparations in the Middle East...
...furnish the stage on which his strange cast converge, Stone takes his cue from Joseph Conrad, who set Nostromo in an imaginary South American republic called Costa-guana. Stone squeezes Tecan and its more progressive neighbor Compostela into a fictional space between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and then provides topography and politics. The land here is racked periodically by earthquakes; when Holliwell arrives in Tecan, he senses the tremors of revolution as well. The local dictator, propped up by U.S. support and sadistic National Guardsmen wearing reflecting sunglasses, may have finally pushed his brutalized subjects too far. He is driving...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) this week began the most comprehensive review of the undergraduate curriculum in more than a decade. The group's first order of business is to examine honors degree requirements, which Sidney Verba '53, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and chairman of CUE, called "the prime example" of "complicated arcane and confusing" rules. The student-Faculty committee's investigation will include the minumum course requirements for a term which currently stand at one in some cases; deadlines for dropping, adding, and changing courses; course credit for work done elsewhere and in summer school...