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...announced goal, the significance of each step in the process was clear. The final result--a set of ten required course areas, of which students must take eight--came after months of intense bargaining within the Faculty, and consultation with student groups such as the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and the Educational Resources Group...
...several sources. Many students believed the high number of required courses, coupled with only limited options for by-passing introductory-level offerings, would create a strict curriculum focused on large, fuzzily defined, basic lecture courses. Others objected to the alleged lack of student consultation, maintaining that the students on CUE and ERG were not representative of the entire student body. More than 2500 undergraduates signed a petition asking for a delay of the Faculty vote on the Core plan, and a Crimson poll showed that almost 65 per cent of the College's student body opposed the proposal...
...part of students in relation to the Core. "Students knew they weren't going to be affected," he says, and therefore very few of them bothered to study the issue carefully. Those who did--student representatives on the Education Resources Group (ERG) and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), for example--generally supported the plan. "The students who have gone into this very carefully can see the virtues of this," he says, and praises CUE and ERG members for working so closely with the Faculty Council and the summer groups when the Core plan was being formulated. That close cooperation...
...Faculty to the concerns of undergraduates," he says. "I would have thought it would have gotten the support of the student media." He dismisses the possibility that opposition to the Core might have sprung up without support from the student media, or that many students not connected with CUE or ERG might have studied the proposal on their...
Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who were already considering an increased Israeli allotment as a "sweetener," apparently took the cue. On Tuesday Vance offered to allot 20 more F-15s (worth $16 million each) to Israel, in exchange for approval of the Saudi deal. This moved New York Senator Jacob Javits, a key Jewish spokesman, to remark, "I believe we're on a road which could lead to a settlement." Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker and Illinois Republican Charles Percy switched to Carter's side. The same day, Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown iterated...