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...Educational Resources Group (ERG), which originally suggested this solution, also proposed to make any student with Advanced Placement (A.P.) test credit eligible for Core credit, whether or not be enrolled in the sophomore standing program. The ERG also said students should be able to take A.P. tests at Harvard, perhaps during Freshman Week...
...kept discussion of the Core behind closed doors and beyond the grasp of students. Rosovsky capped his policy of stifling student involvement when he asked the Core committee two weeks ago not to divulge any information even about the 38 courses that had already been approved by the group. The few students who serve on the standing committee or its subcommittees were forbidden to solicit opinions about proposed courses from fellow undergraduates...
...student committee members are indeed chosen--at least indirectly--as representatives. At Rosovsky's request, the Educational Resources Group (ERG) elected these students from its ranks. ERG members, in turn, are elected yearly in the Houses. Conveniently ignoring this selection process, Rosovsky insists that students on the Core Committees should just express their ideas and not try to act as spokesmen for the student body. If Rosovsky just wanted random ideas, he could have bypassed ERG and picked the members arbitrarily...
Berman failed to observe that Rosovsky's group is not a congressional committee; the Core does not affect national security. Allowing students to consider proposed Core courses before they are approved will hardly endanger lives...
They also said U.S. officials contacted members of an Ugandan exile government coalition group...