Word: deane
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That was when the gloves came off. The Task force's report set in motion the two-year sequence of events that culminated in last spring's Faculty vote to replace Gen Ed with a more detailed Core Curriculum. Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the architect of the Core proposal, calls the curriculum reform "an attempt to redirect the attention of the Faculty to the concerns of undergraduates"; others, such as Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, termed it "a return to 1953 General Education," nothing more than a stiffening of existing requirements...
...bottom line on the Faculty's vote, taken May 2, left the substantive development of the Core up to the Facylty standing committee and several subcommittees--all of whose members are to be appointed by Rosovsky. In a recent interview, the dean said he has spent the summer conferring with faculty members and administrators, and intends to name the committee members by the time classes begin in September. "People think I moved slowly on these things, but that is the way I prefer it," he says adding that he has spent most of his time weighing the appointment...
...options and modify the basic proposal. Calling the Faculty's vote authorizing the Core plan "an IOU from the Faculty to the students," he makes it clear that the obligation will be fully repaid only when Harvard undergraduates have a completely revamped curriculum. It is a debt that the dean will go to great lengths to honor
This the argument that for years the Harvard administration has turned against The Crimson and, to a lesser degree in recent years, the weekly Independent. These are just students, the deans smile, shaking their heads--their views are not to be trusted, for they cannot be as cool-headed as we. Often the most pleasant moments at faculty meetings come when the crowd joins together in good-natured laughter at the latest thrust, by some dean or another, at the folly of the "student media." Condescenison is always in style at Faculty meetings...
...goes without saying, of course, that those same deans and professors and administrators who so pride themselves on this objectivity still manage to develop a bias of their own on occasion. Yet, the argument goes, these are opinions based on a survey, "the full picture" taken from a room in University Hall, and so much clearer than the view here on Plympton St. Students, the deans will say, cannot form proper opinions because they do not have all the facts; yet they will not release the facts to newspaers because they fear the opinions that might develop. The dispassionate observer...