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...Adam E. Sandel ’08 of Wigglesworth said he thought that it would take strict enforcement to keep freshmen away for good...
...April’s HCCR report. While we appreciate that the Committee on General Education is reluctant to make hasty decisions regarding these momentous choices, we are worried that the “shape” of the proposed system—as Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel called it—is too lacking in definition for any substantive discussion. We heartily agree with Baird Professor of Science Gary Feldman who intimated at the meeting, “Unless we know what the purpose of general education is, then we won’t know what qualifies...
...became clear throughout the afternoon that professors are overwhelmingly undecided about what the general education system should look like. In an impromptu straw poll taken by Sandel towards the end of the over two-hour discussion, approximately 12 professors said they would favor a system of strict distributional requirements, while about twice that number voted in favor of a distributional system that would include Harvard College Courses...
Professors also disagreed on how the distributional requirements should be shaped. Sandel said that the committee may recommend that students take classes in the humanities and arts, the social sciences and the natural sciences, along with separate requirements in history, moral reasoning and quantitative reasoning...
Baird Professor of Science Gary Feldman, who called today’s Core categories “not so bad,” took issue with the broad nature of the three principal areas of study defined by Sandel, arguing that they encompassed just about everything...