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...Faculty is expected to approve today the first change in General Education rules in six years, enabling students to use departmental courses to satisfy their basic Gen Ed requirement...
Currently, the Humanities and Social Science basic requirements must be satisfied by Gen Ed courses. The Nat Sci requirement may be met either with one year of Nat Sci courses or two years of departmental courses within the natural sciences. The complicated rules by which courses do and do not count for the so-called "Nat Sci by-pass" will be dropped from the official rules...
Edward T. Wilcox, chairman of the Gen Ed committee, said he will ask the Faculty to allow the committee discretion in setting such rules...
...consequence of the new rules will be the elimination of the basic requirement in a student's own field of concentration. Wilcox said yesterday the regulations are meant to imply that courses used for concentration may also be counted for the Gen Ed requirement...
Meanwhile, the Thai Communist Suppression Operations Command (CSOC) has submitted a long-term suppression program for the south to the Thai National Security Council. Lt.-Gen. Saiyud Kerdpol, head of CSOC's coordinating center, explained that the increasing complexity of the southern guerrilla movement necessitated a two-pronged attack-one to immediately crush the rebels by military means and a second to "win the hearts and minds of the people...