Word: focusing
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...original indictments have already attracted national attention, and a trial this summer might only provide the focus for more general abortion debate...
...apart from these general observations, the OWE uses its information to focus on specific groups of women--in this case, women who major in academic areas considered non-traditional for women. This year the office sponsored meetings for prospective women concentrators in Economics, Government and the physical sciences with women Faculty, graduate students and research associates in those departments. "If I can believe all that I've heard since those meetings, the freshmen found them very helpful," Walzer says. "And the women graduate students, junior Faculty and senior Faculty were both willing and enthusiastically positive...
...addition to continuing those meetings next year, the OWE has sent a special mailing to incoming freshman women who have declared an interest in the sciences to acquaint them with the Science Center. The office will focus on this group of women once it arrives, in order to follow individual courses of action with respect to continuing in the sciences...
Meanwhile the Redbook's pages have yellowed in local eyes as well. With the multiplying number of Gen Ed courses, the focus of the program has dissolved. Since the Gen Ed pages of the catalogue have come to provide a refuge for courses that do not fit into the neatly compartmentalized offerings of the departments, the program no longer possesses even the shreds of an underlying purpose and philosophy. What President Bok has called the "substantial disarray" of the University's undergraduate curriculum is a commonly voiced criticism. In light of Harvard's increasing financial restraints and the competition...
...only specific topic slated for the Rosovsky committee agenda is education in the freshman year. The topic will be raised by Dean Kiely who steered the CUE through a year-long study of the freshman year in 1972-73. Kiely's choice of focus was in part a tactical one. Since freshman year is the only one in which departments have few vested interests, it represents an area where the would-be reformer is least likely to encounter Faculty resistance. The outcome of the CUE review, Kiely's "Notes Toward a Discussion of Freshman Year," outlines a proposal...