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Patricia L. Larash '97, a member of the Core Review Committee (CRC), said her committee was trying to make Harvard the best possible in the "absolute sense and not the comparative sense. If [the committee's work] happens to bump up our ratings, then that's great," Larash said...
...When they were originally designing the Core, Quantitative Rea- -soning was something they talked about on an equal footing with the existing Core areas," says CRC member Patricia L. Larash '97. "For practical reasons and maybe a little politicking it wasn't included...
...Quantitative Reasoning is certainly worth reconsidering," Larash says. "There's a feeling that an educated person should have some tools and intellectual sophistication to approach a world where quantitative things are so prevalent...
Fortunately, the Core Review Committee, which was established by Knowles to evaluate the Core and report to the SCCP, seems to be moving in this direction. However, we feel that it is not moving far enough. According to Patricia Larash '97, one of the two student members of the eight-person committee, the end result of the year-long examination may be no more than "a less monolithic core more amenable to departmental bypasses." This is unacceptable for several reasons...
...Patricia Larash '97 is a mild-mannered classics major living in Winthrop House...