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...action was interrepted as a good sign for adoption of the recommendations by the coordinator of the HPC audit, John V. Whitbeck...
Though the HPC still supports the idea of a free fifth course, their plan this year in no way hinges on it as last year's did. "Isolating the two issues was wise," Edward T. Wilcox, secretary of the CEP said last week, "because of the fiscal implications of the fifth course. We would have to make estimations of how many might take the fifth course and there would clearly be a budgetary limitation...
...pass-fail discussion ate up all the time at the meeting, Wilcox said yesterday, and the CEP postponed considering another HPC proposal for modifying the language requirement...
Pass-fail has been close to adoption once before. Last February the CEP approved an HPC pass-fail plan for a free fifth course; it needed only Faculty approval, which is routine for CEP recommendations...
...when the HPC charged membership at the start of the winter term the new representatives repudiated the proposal of the old, and the CEP decided to re-think the whole question. The new HPC drafted a plan calling for a fourth course pass-fail option, and that is the proposal the CEP approved in principle yesterday...