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...GOOF UP MY SYSTEM. Thomas Aquinas Murphy, 62, chairman of General Motors Corp., is a casual fellow with gray Brillo hair, thick bookkeeper's spectacles, a heap of optimism and no pretenses. From his 14th-floor corner office behind security-locked glass doors in the Gen eral Motors Building, he looks out at Detroit's soaring Renaissance Center, which is the city's multimillion-dollar bet on its own future, and to him the view is bright...
This month's 74-69 victory over UMass Boston was win number 100 for the Basketeers. With a career total of 102-25. John Harvey now stands out as the winningest coach in the history of the Gen Ed Department...
...Gen Ed program needs to be changed, the report states, because it "lacks a clear sense of purpose and permits students to sample from too large and varied an assortment of courses...
...students and Faculty members believed only five new areas of general education would be established, to replace the three existing areas. However, the Core report recommends a much more rigid program with ten specific areas in all. This is unacceptable: although we recognize the inevitability of some type of Gen Ed revisions, ten areas constitute an unnecessarily excessive infringement on students' freedom of choice. Indeed, most members of the Harvard community were prepared to accept the verdict of the Faculty subcommittees. In light of the unexpectedly stringent requirements, however, many must now reconsider whether or not the Faculty is going...
...present Gen Ed program, while inadequate, at least makes some concessions to the individualized talents of Faculty members. To attempt to eradicate much of the educational innovation present in many small, specialized courses would be a misguided effort. Furthermore, the Faculty Council's unwillingness to allow students to by-pass some of the Core requirements by taking selected combinations of departmental courses further indicates the authors' determination to restrict student freedom...