Word: harper
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Students play roles of varying importance in educational change. Most schools allow students to serve on committees forming the curricular proposals, but rarely do students initiate any changes. Student reaction to new requirements ranges from annoyance to disinterest to quiet praise. One student at Harper says sarcastically of the proposed requirements there, "Some people are under the impression that this is going to be an Ivy League college someday." A student at Syracuse said his college's plan would lead to a "ridiculous, arbitrary core." But student newspapers at Stanford and Northwestern lauded proposals there...
Many school are trading in their old three-area systems for more finely-tuned divisions. Harper College, the liberal arts school of the State University of New York at Binghamton, has not yet decided what will replace its old Nat Sci, Soc Sci, Hum program, but H. Daniel Cohen, acting dean of the college, says the faculty is considering three options. One is an eight-course core curriculum for all students; another would let students choose among five or six sets of eight-course curricula; the third option (which Harper calls the Harvard Plan) would be a three-area distribution...
...Harper & Row; 171 pages...
...university presidents have to their credit a "best sportwriting of the year" award. Giamatti does, for his 1977 Harper's magazine article eulogizing Tom Seaver's relationship with the New York Mets the fall after Seaver was sold. Giamatti in fact proclaims that baseball is "a sport that touches on what is most important in American life"--a belief enhanced by a whole theory he says is epitomized by Seaver. "The sadness of Seaver was that he came East with a dream and somehow it didn't work...
Talk about strange bedfellows. There were Feminists Valerie Harper, Jean Stapleton and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke clustered around their hosts, Hugh Hefner and his daughter Christie, who were throwing a $100-a-plate dinner in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Reasoned the president of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.: "Playboy is clearly a major factor in the sexual revolution. And clearly the social-sexual revolution is related to the women's movement." Nor were the feminists shy about accepting Hef's hospitality. Said Burke: "The people we have to get to support ERA are some of Hefner's constituents...