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...Urban Design program, to replace CRP. However, McCue says the GSD will probably not be ready to admit students to the new urban planning program until the fall of 1982. Thus far, the school has had three general faculty meetings to discuss the thrust of the new department. "The object was to get the issues out before us so the faculty could think about them over the summer," McCue says, adding that he will form a committee next fall to start working out the details of the new program. Carl F. Steinitz, professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, concurs...
...case method, a Socratic, learn-by-doing teaching technique based on case examples taken from real business situations, has been the object of much controversy over the past few years. Echoing the popular criticisms of the method, Bok recommended that its use be limited, and that more traditional lecture-style teaching be employed to teach basic concepts and mechanical skills...
...their families, to the elderly who wonder what will heat their homes next window, to the young men and women who expect to fight in whatever war looms ahead, to the minorities and the poor with no future except more of the same. So far, this fear has no object, but hovers ominously in the streets like a waiting thundercloud...
From the Toyota Tercel driver on the Santa Ana Freeway in Los Angeles to the Volkswagen Rabbit owner dodging potholes on the F.D.R. Drive on Manhattan's East Side, the American-built car has become an object of derision and jokes. All too many American drivers now consider the cars they once fawned over to be simply too big, too heavy and too expensive. As car sales continue a yearlong slump and the auto industry faces its gravest crisis ever, an increasingly anxious public is asking: Why can't Detroit build more and better small cars...
Whites as well object that newcomers overtax the housing (the vacancy rate in Dade County is less than 1%), the over burdened schools and other public services. Beyond the matter of fairness to American blacks and other minorities, the new Cuban infusion raises questions about what is fair to other refugees and immigrants. Millions of people around the world want to get into America; they pay the nation the compliment of a sometimes desperate yearning to settle here. There are now 9 million foreigners applying, and only a small percentage of them will get the chance to enter...