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...Core that has attracted so much attention still exists only on paper; students here are still waiting to see how it will shape up. Although Harvard has issued a report outlining the requirements in the Core and the principles behind it, the Faculty and administrators still have much work ahead of them before the Class of '83, the first class required to fulfill any Core requirements, will begin taking courses next fall...
...biggest task facing the Core committees is to find enough courses that fit into the framework outlined in the Core report to make up a comprehensive curriculum. Administrators expect that when fully implemented the Core will contain about 80 to 100 courses, slightly less than in Gen Ed. Dean Rosovsky has said that he expects to offer incentives to Faculty members who develop Core courses. Faculty members have speculated that those incentives will take the form of extra leaves of absence or extension of junior faculty appointments...
That was when the gloves came off. The Task force's report set in motion the two-year sequence of events that culminated in last spring's Faculty vote to replace Gen Ed with a more detailed Core Curriculum. Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the architect of the Core proposal, calls the curriculum reform "an attempt to redirect the attention of the Faculty to the concerns of undergraduates"; others, such as Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, termed it "a return to 1953 General Education," nothing more than a stiffening of existing requirements...
...process of selecting which areas should be included in the Core that raised a second group of objections. Wilson's task force had originally recommended an arrangement of five areas; by the time Bailyn and other members of the Faculty finished with the report, however, the five-step attack had undergone mitosis, not to mention a considerable mutation. The final Faculty Council report reshuffled Wilson's original five areas, and then split each in two--effectively making each student reponsible for a half-course in eight out of ten subdivisions of the Core. As in Gen Ed, the student would...
...ROLE a bit differently. Reporting news--to the extent that anyone can do so with a reasonable degree of accuracy, within a community that is as interwoven and as emotionally charged as Harvard--is our first priority. But it is not our only one. Important issues demand comment, and it is not in a newsman's nature to remain silent; it is therefore this newspaper's obligation, as any other's, to analyze and criticize the news that we report. We do not expect to be treated as the font of all wisdom, just as we do not treat anyone...