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...years since 1945, the General Education Program as set forth in the Redbook (General Education in a Free Society) has undergone, in the words of the Doty Committee, a process of "erosion." The formal requirements placed on the undergraduate, although riddled by an increasing number of exceptions, have remained fairly rigid. But in assembling the courses that fulfill these requirements, the Gen Ed Committee has had neither the resources to insure that its program was adequate, nor--and this is perhaps its most serious weakness--a rationale for existence that had any real application to the Program as it developed...
...Simon bought 95,000 more shares of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, raising his total to 205,000 of the company's 4,600,000 widely owned shares. Most or all of these 205,000 shares are owned by the Simon-controlled McCall Corp., publisher of McCall's, Redbook and other magazines...
Doty's committee is faced with the choice of calling for a revision of the Gen Ed Program to bring it back into conformity with the Redbook, or devising a new rationale for the program...
...Redbook Hopes...
...Redbook hoped that an understanding of traditions and culture would serve as a unifying force in a society fragmented by differences of occupation and class. General Education was the education necessary to avoid this fragmentation, which the Redbook considered inimical to a democratic society...