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When the Core is fully implemented in 1982, it will formally require students to take ten half-year courses in the five areas of the Core, but Dean Rosovsky's report on the Core states that undergraduates must take no more than eight half-year Core Courses...
...committee is expected to reduce the requirement to eight half-year courses by exempting students from Core areas adequately covered by their concentration requirements...
Wilcox said yesterday committee members in "hard science" concentrations--including Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Applied Sciences, and Applied Mathematics--from the required half-year Core course in biological sciences. Because these concentrations do not cover the life-sciences, the committee will only grant concentrators an exemption in the half-year Core course in physical sciences, he said...
Beginning with the freshman entering in the fall of 1982, students must take eight half-year courses spread among the five areas. This year freshmen must take any two Core courses as part of the transitional Gen Ed requirement. Aside from these five areas, the Core eventually will set requirements in mathematics, foreign language and expository writing...
...step backward, a mess, enough to make one nauseous." So said Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Shah's last Prime Minister, at a 90-minute press conference in Paris, where he emerged from a half-year of hiding to denounce the revolutionary government that toppled him in February after barely more than a month in office. Bakhtiar, who is on the regime's wanted list of former officials charged with high crimes, accused Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini of lacking "a master idea" for Iran and predicted that the waste and corruption under the Islamic government "will surpass" anything seen...