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...amendments--although only minor concessions to those students and professors who want to see less severe restrictions on students' freedom--were apparently enough to assuage the student representatives on CUE and the Educational Resources Group (ERG...
...heavily pro-Core Faculty Council played its hand well. In return for CUE and ERG rejection of major amendments--such as the Abernathy amendment, which would provide for optional departmental by-passes for all core courses--the council conceded little to the students...
...Faculty Council's rejection last week of an Educational Resources Group (ERG) proposal to allow student representation on the Core committees bears an arrogant and unconcerned tone that many students find all too typical. The council will vote again on ERG's proposal today, and we urge it to vote differently this time. Failing that it seems that only a strong expression of student disappointment over being left out of the Core process, and over the contents of the Core itself, will be the only student recourse. Unfortunately, given the general tone of apathy on campus today, such a development...
Another central question-a question that presupposes the inevitability of the Faculty voting for some kind of astringent core curriculum--is whether students will be represented on the core subcommittees. Last week members of the Faculty Council insouciantly ignored a request by the CUE and the ERG to provide for such student representation, and also turned their backs on a host of other recommendations including the establishment of a departmental by-pass mechanism. This merely added insult to injury. The total indifference of the Faculty Council to student opinions can do nothing but foment a somewhat cynical and defiant attitude...
This year, when the new proposal was released, ERG and CUE again made valid objections, many of which are described below. Once again, however, student attempts at input seem to be to no avail...