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Aside from pressuring for a lower-level international conference on the possibility of ending test explosions, the Committee should attempt to make the A.E.C. postpone the series of tests scheduled for this week. Declaring a moratorium on further experiments until the Communists' intentions have been fully explored would have the effect of demonstrating America's concern over the possible effects of test explosions. If Moscow is sincere in its proposal, the world would gain substantially by such a ban, and if it is not sincere, America can discover this before it loses any ground in the armaments race...
...Committee on General Education has announced major alterations in the lower-level Natural Sciences program and four new Gen Ed courses...
...principle of paper-writing is certainly recognised in the lower-level General Education courses, which in their attempt to bestir sluggard minds, usually require at least four papers apiece. Instructors of departmental and upper-level General Education courses, however, often require no more than an hour exam. Hour exams do serve to test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question...
...time the other lower-level Nat. Sci. courses might also adopt Nat. Sci. 2's lab idea, according to William H. McCord, newly appointed assistant secretary of the Committee on General Education...
This solution will provide only partial relief for the situation, however. In an expanding College the best permanent remedy for overcrowding in lower-level General Education courses is to have more of them. Yet such an increase is currently impossible, for the Faculty has put strict limits on the number of these courses that can be given in any one year. These limits should be raised immediately, so that additional choices in the Humanities and Social Sciences can be set up by next fall. The Class of '60's first encounter with the College curriculum might thus become a happier...