Word: gen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Construction of a new Biochemistry lab triggered the search for new Gen Ed offices, and the South House residence at 103 Walker Street was considered as a site until student protest mounted against the proposal...
...bring the Quad more into the mainstream of the College. While the idea is well-motivated, it shows little sensitivity for the Quad's real needs. Tutorials and course sections in the three Houses and Hilles bring a significant part of academic life north of the Common. But the Gen Ed Office move would bring a few courses' administrative affairs closer to Quad residents only at the expense of moving those affairs farther from the buildings where the courses are actually taught...
...would mean the annoyance of having to go out of their way for simple matters like dropping off papers, picking up course materials, or meeting for office hours. And for Quad students it is a routine matter to stop at Faculty offices near the Yard for such matters. The Gen Ed Office must be moved to make way for a new Biochemistry lab, and the Quad does need more College activity. but the Gen Ed Office should have a more intelligent location, and the Quad should have more meaningful commitments from the Faculty than a little additional furniture...
...Morton Prince House, renovated last summer to accomodate the Gen Ed Office and the Linguistics Department office, will be demolished in February 1978 to make room for the Bio Labs...
...proposal for relocating the Gen Ed office is aimed at making the Quad more attractive to students by involving the Quad morehdirectly in the mainstrem of undergraduate life...