Word: ergs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin to believe that power is more than a myth, let them consider this. In the lightweight men's race a Radcliffe eight, all women, outraced a Colgate eight, all men. Granddad better tell his third generation, dyed in the wool Harvard male chauvinist to get back on the erg. Big Bertha's closing...
...creation of the Educational Resources Group (ERG) has helped CUE appreciably. ERG advises CUE and selects its student members. Consisting of about two dozen House representatives, it meets frequently and is presently working on the implementation of the Core Curriculum. ERG members persuaded the Faculty Council to adopt several amendments to the Core last year that may be beneficial to students...
...even ERG's efforts to influence the Core have received fire from students. A poll last year showed that a majority of students opposed the Core. Some students thought CUE members should not have supported the Core even with amendments. Rosovsky, however, praised CUE and ERG efforts in connection with the Core. He said CUE did not ignore student opinion when it supported the Core, since students never made their feelings about it very clear...
...general mood of apathy on the 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...
...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...