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Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Seymour Slive eased sophomores' pain yesterday, admitting some of them to his Literature and Arts B course after announcing hours before study cards were due last week that they would be cut from the class...
...That was unpredictable," Slive said of the heavy course turnout. "My heart is broken about [the lottery]," he said...
...dilemma faced by Slive and the sophomores in his "Rembrandt" class is but one example of the confusion and frustration generated by course lotteries in Core Curriculum classes over the past week...
...even better example of incomprehensible decision-making comes from the "Lotteries Working for You" file. On Wednesday, the last day of shopping period, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Seymour Slive informed the sophomores in attendance at Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt," that they were no longer welcome in the course. Many sophomores, however, had attended the three previous lectures without any expectation they would be axed. In fact, several had already turned in their study cards that morning before class...
...explanation Slive gave for singling out sophomores was that juniors and seniors would not have a chance to take the course again. But he also indicated that freshman were favored over sophomores because they were possible Fine Arts concentrators. Likewise, Professor DeVore had also remarked that Science B-29 was "practically a requirement" for anthropology concentrators...