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...field, and talk about it," he says. "It's not just the game but the environment around it." By leading the team through intense practices and games with an unfailing sense of mission, Roberts "has been the heart of the rugby team for a long time," according to second-year player Peter Green...
...March 25, the faculty unanimously approved the recommendations of two subcommittees to restructure both the first-year and the second-year programs. Changes in the first-year curriculum, effective this fall, are to include a reduction in the number of classes from 15 to 13 per week and a reduction in pages of reading. Alterations in the second year will include increased emphasis on individual research projects and a reduction from six to five requirements in the spring term. The second-year changes will take effect in the 1983-4 school year...
Officials say they also hoped to make the second-year program more interesting for students, many of whom complain that the year is unproductive because the subject matter is often dull after the first year. The committee studying the second-year program stated that when second-year students were surveyed about the year, "the most commonly used adjective, by far, was 'boring.' Other often used words were 'routine' and 'repetitive'." Officials hope to diversify the program by increasing emphasis on independent study and "an explicit policy of facilitating experimentation, innovation and variety in the content and process of second year...
Jane Weeks, another second-year student who helped coordinate the student vote, says that while she believes making the clerkships mandatory is a mistake, the changes "reflected a legitimate concern that there were students graduating from the Medical School who just didn't know certain things...
...committee "observed the letter, but not the spirit of having students involved," says Bill Betcher, a second-year student who helped conduct the student poll Betcher added that in "providing lip service to the exchange of views," the faculty created an atmosphere of mistrust even around proposals "that actually had some merit...