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...HPC's report on Independent Study was never buried, we are now told, merely resting while the Committee on Educational Policy plowed through the specifics of two other HPC proposals--pass-fail and a reduced language requirement. The investigation of Independent Study the CEP opened this week promises some revisions in a program well overdue for structural changes...
...been working on this one for about five years," Ford said last night. The new department was approved last month by the CEP, and many likely details of its structure were outlined in a massive HPC audit of the Arch Sci department this fall...
Last Spring, John Polazzo '69 became a famous Harvard person. He led a gigantic drive to increase parietals. Nothing happened, of course. Most people ended up hating his guts for being so pushy. Since then nothing still has happened. While the HPC has provoked academic change merely by lifting its collective little finger, nobody and nothing has provoked the administration to improve the way people live around here. John Polazzo, who used to live here, tried harder than almost anybody else. He finally quit in January...
...bluebook question started with a November HPC recommendation that booklets from all final examinations be returned to students. The CEP took no action on the resolution Wednesday and Brooks echoed Dean Ford's statement of a month ago that the only action needed on the HPC request was a reminder to the Faculty members to save exams for students who want them back. The CEP confirmed its vote of two weeks ago backing a new department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Details of the new department's structure, already outlined in an HPC audit on the Arch Sci Department, were...
...Department has returned to a more flexible system, which allows even a Group IV student with a recommendation from his tutor to write a thesis. At the same time the department's new senior conference courses promise to become the acceptable alternative the HPC requested for seniors who don't want to write theses. Hopefully the department will give the same serious attention to other HPC recommendations--altering the form of the senior thesis, changing sophomore tutorial to a half course for credit, and eliminating or deemphasizing senior generals...