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...restructure these time-honored sports activities so that everyone plays and no one loses. In a version of "new volleyball," the aim is to keep the ball from hitting the ground rather than to score points by zinging it at the feet of opponents across the net. Says Jeff McKay, a San Francisco teacher and baseball coach who subscribes to the foundation's theory of no winners or losers: "If the game doesn't fit the players, we change the game, not the players...
...proposal produced among Faculty members. Opponents teed off on two key points. The first of these was based on the philosophical premise that no faculty is competent to judge what areas of knowledge constitute the "core" that is essential to a completely educated person. William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Appplied Mathematics and author of a counter-proposal to thbe Core, poked fun at what he saw as the Core's attempt to eliminate ignorance in all areas. Said Bossert: "The summed ignorance of this particular Faculty is evidence that ignorance is debilitating neither professionally nor personally." However Bernard...
...Faculty voted in the plan after rejecting a substitute proposal by William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, that would have set up a program of major and minor concentration requirements instead of the Core...
Before considering the Bossert and Core proposals, the Faculty debated an amendment by David G. Hughes '47, Mason Professor of Music, and Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, that would have allowed students the option of filling alternate plans of study, subject to their tutor's approval, during the four-year phasing-in period leading to full implementation of the Core...
William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and the sponsor of the substitute proposal, said yesterday he does not believe his motion will pass...