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Some members of the committee have expressed differing views on Core issues. Solbrig, Walter Jackson Bate, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, and Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty and chairman of the Expos subcommittee, said yesterday they strongly support the by-pass proposal and "floater" plan that would allow students to transfer one half-course of the Core requirement to another field of study...
...level courses of which the Core will most likely be composed. Rosovsky, in a move to graner support among groups that had first been hostile to the plan--notably professors in the natural sciences, who felt their disciplines were under-represented in the scheme of requirements--agreed to a "floater" amendment, which authorized the administrative Core Committees to study the possibility of switching one or more courses among different sub-areas. Most of the disgruntled professors joined the bandwagon as eagerly as if they had been firmly promised a spot in the Cote, rather than just that possibility. (Hope springs...
...praises CUE and ERG members for working so closely with the Faculty Council and the summer groups when the Core plan was being formulated. That close cooperation resulted in the Faculty's decision to adopt virtually all of the amendments CUE suggested--including the so-called "by-pass" and "floater" amendments--and demonstrated, Rosovsky believes, that the channels of communication between students and faculty are still very much open...
...task of translating those detailed guidelines into about 80 or 100 Core courses. The first step in that process will come sometime this summer, when he appoints members of the committees that will set up the new Core courses, and decide the extent of the by-pass and floater provisions authorized by the Faculty. After that, the main problem will be one of making sure the Core does not "degenerate in the same fashion as the General Education program...
...committees will also decide on the feasibility of different by-pass and floater plans that have the potential to give students needed flexibility and freedom in fulfilling requirements. A number of other questions, such as the relationship of Expository Writing to the Core, the final shape of the language requirement, and the possibilities of taking Core courses pass/fail, are also in the hands of the committee...