Word: reformers
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...courses. Projects will not be automatically approved under the new system and the number of students who can take Independent Studies will be limited by the amount of time Faculty members find to supervise these one-man courses. But the CEP (and the Harvard Policy Committee which initiated the reform) can take bows for making Independent Study as well-known and open as its cousin, the Freshman Seminar program...
...hamstrung by outdated regulations. The audits are able to flush out information on just how well programs are working--information which the CEP would not otherwise have. And an audit can turn vague student discontent about any part of Harvard's education into a well-substantiated case for specific reform. The HPC should continue to exploit this clever mechanism as it pushes for more education in the Houses and still larger changes in what and how Harvard teaches...
STUDENT deferments themselves are of dubious validity. Secretary of Labor Wirtz has testified that they are unnecessary for maintaining an adequate supply of skilled manpower. They should be abolished entirely--but only as part of comprehensive draft reform, such as the Marshall Commission recommendations or Senator Edward M. Kennedy's reform bill now pending in the Senate...
...Godkin topic was "To Govern for Freedom in an Age of Explosions," and Bundy's message was that the government is today the only possible agent of social reform. He pleaded with such fervor for the requisite extension of government powers that he almost ended up advocating a species of benevolent socialism for the United States...
FIRST, will the boycott, if it succeeds in ousting South Africa, have any effect on that country's apartheid policies? Many observers feel Johannesburg would respond to exclusion with repressive, not reform- ing, measures, Brundage reportedly holds this view as do some of the South African blacks. One black sports official there said the proposed boycott "is a slap in the face to us." South Africa's oppressed majority regards any concessions from the government as valuable, no matter how small, and does not want to lose this...