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President Reagan's nominee to head the Selective Service System, Maj. Gen. Thomas Turnage, who recently supported the draft as an adviser in the Pentagon, is still awaiting Congressional approval
...takes familiar material and gives it a characteristic touch of astringency that keeps it from being sentimental. Playing against Martins' coolness is the fervor with which the youngsters perform. Lisa Jackson is a formidable technician at 19, and Gen Horiuchi, 16, has a thrilling attack and dumbfounding poise. He seems to have minutely observed his mentor (one hand on hip, glance askance) and also Baryshnikov (a tendency to open his mouth to show emotion). The audience loved Gen...
...courses in General Education were diffuse enough that further bypasses, in the Humanities and the social Sciences, were proposed and passed to augment the Sciences bypass--and suddenly everybody had the option of ignoring General Education altogether, simply by taking two courses in any department instead of a Gen Ed offering...
...then, of course, another retrograde idea was dusted off and heralded as the next great undergraduate breakthrough--and in 1975, 30 years after Conant's committee had prepared the Red Book, the Core was formulated. When Dean Rosovsky's committee came to the conclusion that Gen Ed had degenerated into a gut-filled abyss, it formulated a plan which divided knowledge into not three but five general areas of study; Literature and Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Science, and Foreign Cultures. By the time it is fully implemented for the class of 1986, each student will have...
...Core? As Wilcox says, "These reforms don't last forever. Rosovsky and the others won't be here to push it forever. Other deans with other priorities will come in, just as happened with Gen Ed." With a certain chagrin in his voice, he adds, "right now you can graduate without taking a single Gen Ed course." The more things change, the more things stay the same. Over at the Harvard Club, they still have that five foot shelf of books...