Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev head toward an agreement to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, the deal has become the object of intense controversy. Critics of this so-called zero option say it would "decouple" the defense of the U.S. from that of Western Europe: the less nato can rely on American nuclear weapons in Europe, the more it will be at the mercy of the numerically superior conventional forces of the Soviet bloc...
Members of a student-faculty committee yesterday disputed the feasibility of an Undergraduate Council proposal that would allow students to bypass the Science A or B requirement with a mathematics and computer Science C option that would replace the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement...
However, Evan J. Mandery '89, chairman of the council's academics committee which wrote the proposal, said that the report suggested Science C as a bypass option, not an additional requirement. The Science C requirement would offer computer science as well as quantitative and statistical courses, Mandery said...
...interview after the meeting, Mandery said that the faculty members would probably not accept the new option as a bypass for Science A or B and a replacement...
...Core Requirement really wants students to achieve computer literacy, as well as competence in dealing with numbers and statistics, the QRR should be restructured. The Committee could incorporate quantitative reasoning skills into the Science A core requirement, or as the Undergraduate Council has proposed, add a computer and math option to the Core. Or perhaps a series of required minicourses could be established. In any case, the QRR should be either intensified or abolished. As it is, it serves no purpose and merely wastes time...