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...move to the larger issue, I disagree with Mr. Emmerich's assessment that CUE meetings are "secret." Although interpretations may differ, I believe (as does Webster's) that "secret" means keeping information from general knowledge. From this understanding, an important fact emerges: the CUE does not "conduct its meeting in secret" because--save for the 'Core Curriculum' meeting of February 6--minutes are available for every CUE meeting as well as reports from any CUE member, including its chairperson Dean Bowersock...
Nevertheless, Mr. Emmerich believes that "CUE meetings should not be closed to reporters on campus newspapers." While agreeing with him in principle. I think it is necessary to point out the reason for the closed meetings. In the past, the five faculty CUE members have opposed the presence of reporters because they believed that free and open discussion could be best maintained when one is not held accountable for his/her every word. Although the five student members at the time preferred to invite the press, they did not belabor this procedural issue since the events of the meetings were ordinarily...
That was the word this week from Faculty members and students on the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), who began hinting at the from the proposed core curriculum will take when the Faculty finally gets a chance to vote...
Students who managed to sneak through high school with a thorough knowledge of their times tables, but not much more, will be disappointed if one key proposal passes. In what one CUE member said was a move to satisfy the University's "science people," the draft plan calls for each student to demonstrate a minimum degree of competence in mathematics...
Assume for a moment that CHUL, CRR, CUE and ERG are all perfectly representative of student opinion, that there is coordination between them, and that the few students on them have the resources and wherewithal to research alternatives to University policy. Even if this were the case, there is still a huge gap to be filled. Many more services could be provided by the Houses if House committees were coordinated and resources pooled...