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Just at the end of last year, second-year courses were made entirely elective, as had the third-year courses been in 1960. Third-year students can now choose from nearly 60 courses and seminars...
...Sophomore Night at last week's A.A.U. Track and Field championships. Under the lights at Memorial Stadium in Bakersfield, Calif., a crowd of 11,600 watched in awe as a pair of second-year college boys proved that youth can serve itself, thank you, with record-breaking performances that did much to boost U.S. hopes for the 1968 Olympics-and beyond...
Dean Ebert appointed this group as a subcommittee of the faculty Curriculum Committee. The critical debate initiated by the second-year experiment undoubtedly encouraged the Dean to begin an investigation of long-needed reforms. The committee, led by Dr. Alexander Leaf, worked over the summer and submitted its report to the faculty last fall. The members tried to re-assess what a medical school should be teaching its students, and questioned the wisdom of allowing each medical department to offer a required course which burdens the student with perhaps irrelevant facts and details. The members recognized that students had differing...
After a few quiet weeks, two second-year students decided to prod the committee into action. They wrote an open letter, invaluable as a well-reasoned document of student concern, outlining the areas in in which reforms were needed. It questioned the rigid numerical grading and ranking system, according to which the student's access to important "Honorary" extra-curricular activities, and possibly his future career plans, were determined. Criticism extended to the Honoraries themselves and suggested that many positions be opened up to free competition and that the School provide more activities and practical internship experiences...
...suggested to it, and passed these on with recommendations for action to the appropriate faculty committees. The joint group was instrumental in eliciting Dean Griswold's public statement against discriminatory hiring practices in February of this year. The committee also approvide the plan for a one-week reading period for first-year students, and supported the Curriculum Committee's recommendation that all second-year course requirements be abolished. It issued its own plan for reform of the Honoraries which met with much hostility and little support but also stimulated further discussion among the Honoraries themselves...