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Clearly, Rosovsky is determined to produce another Redbook. But in a departure from Conant's example, he has consciously chosen not to hinge his magnum opus on the work of a prestigious group of wise men. "We avoided that from the very beginning, we don't operate that way," Rosovsky says, even though he specifically mentioned creating a "blue-ribbon" panel in his February 1974 announcement. By creating the task forces, Rosovsky says, he hoped to gather as many ideas as possible ("they are one of the hardest things to get") and to develop a broad base of support...
...Rosovsky's comments in the Yellow Pages honed in on such specific problems that the letter left considerable confusion over his goal: Was it a Redbook Redux or merely a compendium of detailed and thus ephemeral and short - term revisions? Rosovsky himself acknowledges that he has switched intentions: "There is no contradiction, I've just changed my mind. I began with a notion that there were lots of things we could clearly do better that if we fixed up six to eight quite obvious problems it would justify the effort. I have come to realize more is needed." Rosovsky...
...seven task forces "The Yellow Pages" set in motion, the core curriculum panel faces perhaps the most challenging assignment. It must, in effect, pass judgment on the Redbook itself and come to some conclusion as to the general education foundation erected here after...
Wilson says he has been struck at the panel's bi-weekly meetings by the members' willingness to "take a fresh look" at the value of a core curriculum. While all the members of his panel are mindful of the Redbook, which is mandatory reading, they "do not feel bound by it or bound to challenge it," Wilson says. Yet such openmindedness creates tactical problems, Wilson adds; the task force must also pay attention to the politics of feasibility. It has to, he says, perform the "perplexing tightrope act of balancing daring proposals against possible restraints on their implementation...
...moved into final debate on such questions as the fate of elite majors and the shape of the general guidelines the panel will recommend for concentrations. While the task force will not take on the Faculty establishment by proposing the abolition of concentrations and a return to the pre-Redbook electives system, it will inevitably encroach on the traditionally autonomous Harvard departments...