Word: gens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gen Ed was originally conceived in the mid-1940's- the result of a famous Faculty report on "General Education in a Free Society" known since as "the Redbook". Its purpose, as described by current Gen Ed director Edward T. Wilcox, was to provide "a core curriculum, organized around a central principle of a shared experience with reference to the heritage of Western civilization...
Giles Constable writes, "There are still a great many post-World War Two values built into the General Education program, especially among the senior Faculty," among whom Gen Ed is "something of a stepchild...
...received proposals to eliminate Gen Ed requirements, increase the number of courses, and turn the whole thing over to the Houses. In any case a surprising number of senior and junior Faculty members agreed with Goethals, who said, "We do, indeed, I think, need a revolution in higher education...
...Supreme Court, the government yesterday argued against conscientious objection against a specific war. Solicitor Gen. Erwin N. Griswold said, "The Constitution does not set up freedom of conscience. It does not equate conscience with religion." Selective conscientious ob-jection. Griswold argued, would disrupt American society...
...President Nixon has not yet announced his nominee to replace Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the retiring director of the Selective Service System. But John Pont, head football coach at Indiana University, said Nixon telephoned three weeks ago and asked him to take the position. Pont said that he turned down the offer...