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...what first-year students hear, professors usually get wind of too. And most of those scholars whose courses have earned the title "gut" say they are trying to change their courses' images...
Professors of even the most notorious gut classes acknowledge that feedback from the CUE guide, students and teaching fellows pressures them gradually to toughen requirements in order to have a more structured course and rid themselves of the dreaded title "gut...
...most current students, the paradigm gut class has always been Literature & Arts C-14: "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," a class more commonly known as "Heroes for Zeros." But undergraduates responding to last year's class in the CUE guide rated the course at 3.0 for workload and 2.8 for difficulty--only slightly below the 3.1 and 3.0 respective averages for all of last fall's Core courses...
Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of Classical Greek Literature and professor of Comparative Literature, claims that the course's lingering reputation as a gut may surprise students once they have enrolled. Starting last year, Nagy beefed up the course requirements, and the one-time gut may never be the same...
...Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar set off on peacemaking missions, yet none carried much promise of success. In Washington, President Bush toned down his rhetoric and turned his attention to diplomacy, but said bluntly that he had no immediate hope for "fruitful negotiations." Despite a gut sense that both sides might be looking for a peaceful exit from the crisis, neither seemed prepared to give way on its basic -- and irreconcilable -- demands. "It's a cat-and-mouse game," said British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd in a remark about Saddam's treatment of the hostages. "Now a little mercy...