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...ungraded system would not meet Gen Ed credit requirements as they now stand. Students polled said they feared removing a Gen Ed course as popular as Nat Sci 36 from credit eligibility might signify a future crackdown on other "guts" in the Gen Ed program...
Nearly all non-science concentrators surveyed who had taken Nat Sci 36, or were planning to do so before last week's meeting, said they would not enroll in the course under the proposed system. As a freshman who took Nat Sci 36 last semester said, "If I'm going to take a gut, I'm going to take it for Gen Ed credit...
Science concentrators tended to be less disturbed by the proposed system since their Nat Sci requirements are filled by courses taken in their concentration...
...telephone survey of 60 randomly selected students taken yesterday by The Crimson shows that, although Nat Sci 36 bordered on being what Thomas McGinn '78 called "a free lunch," most students still feel that it is a worthwhile choice in its present form for non-science concentrators who need to take a Natural Science course...
Neil Yanofsky '79 said Nat Sci 36 had a "lot of problems." "A very large percentage were taking it as a gut; 300 people were enrolled and no more than 100 would ever show up at the lectures," he said...