Word: ergs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means clear that the fast lane is indeed overcrowded. Since Dr. Davis first suggested changes in Advanced Standing, the Education Resources Group and the Committee on Undergraduate Education have hotly debated the proposal, and have raised serious questions. But The Crimson article ignores the role of ERG and CUE in helping set Harvard's educational policy...
...students while 396 is not? Dr. Davis has claimed that students entering with 3 acceptable scores are "marginal" A.P. students, but his office has not yet completed a study requested by CUE to document the phenomenon (if the study has been completed, it has not yet been released to ERG...
...Core poses a more interesting problem. The philosophical contradiction between the Core and Advanced Standing was first pointed out to CUE by student members of ERG. The only ways to achieve logical consistency are to abolish the Sophomore Standing Program entirely or to accept the concept (proposed by a CUE faculty member) of a one-to-one credit system between A.P. and Harvard courses. Neither change is likely to be adopted soon...
...Educational Resources Group (ERG), which originally suggested this solution, also proposed to make any student with Advanced Placement (A.P.) test credit eligible for Core credit, whether or not be enrolled in the sophomore standing program. The ERG also said students should be able to take A.P. tests at Harvard, perhaps during Freshman Week...
...student committee members are indeed chosen--at least indirectly--as representatives. At Rosovsky's request, the Educational Resources Group (ERG) elected these students from its ranks. ERG members, in turn, are elected yearly in the Houses. Conveniently ignoring this selection process, Rosovsky insists that students on the Core Committees should just express their ideas and not try to act as spokesmen for the student body. If Rosovsky just wanted random ideas, he could have bypassed ERG and picked the members arbitrarily...