Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Core Curriculum, who wanted to present a petition requesting a delay in the Core vote at Monday's meeting of the Faculty, said yesterday they are upset because their petition was misrepresented at that meeting...
...Faculty permits students elected to an established committee to address the Faculty only if their topic is relevant to the committee on which they serve. Because the Core Curriculum falls under the jurisdiction of CUE, only members of CUE can address the Faculty on that issue...
...AMENDMENTS to the Core Curriculum proposal passed by the Faculty at its Tuesday meeting warrant approval as minor liberalizations of the plan, but the Core itself remains a major mistake that the Faculty now appears very close to making. The amendments authorize a standing committee on the Core Curriculum to establish a series of departmental by-passes to the Core requirements, and to investigate the possibility of a "floater" provision that would allow students to shift a one-half Core course to another field of study...
Given the momentum behind the Core Curriculum and the heavy personal and political investment involved in the plan for Dean Rosovsky and many Faculty members, the implementation of the Core is almost a foregone conclusion. Students have done little to show their opposition to the Core thus far. Yet with two-thirds of the student body against the plan, the resources for opposition exist. We support the Freshman Proctors' resolution against the Core and hope that concerned undergraduates will register their disapproval in coming days. Admittedly, the chances of stopping the Core have become quite slim, but for the sake...
...PROPOSED Core Curriculum is a long overdue move in the direction of academic consolidation at Harvard, but it does fail only because it fails to go far enough toward establishing a prescribed syllabus for freshmen...