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...minority report of the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy will seek to improve, rather than abolish Sophomore Standing. The majority report last month recommended elimination of the Soph Standing program...
This last remark from the report points up its major difficulty, one that may well keep it from gaining all the credence it should in official circles. Almost freakishly short, the report neglects to mention that nearly 80 per cent of Soph Standing students polled earlier this year favored retention of the program. Its conclusions are certainly not supported by the poll, and the report makes little attempt to justify this. Thus, while it seems logical that everyone should live in the Yard, experience Physical Training, and spend a year before deciding what to concentrate in, the fact that...
...majority report, the Committee abandoned any effort to improve the Soph Standing program for an all-put drive to have it abolished. The Committee's familiarity with the Administration should have warned that this was not the best path to effective action. And the Committee's minority report will certainly not increase the impact of the majority statement. If the Committee really wanted to help matters, it probably should have concentrated on reforms that might be enacted, instead of dividing its strength so that part of the Committee (unfortunately the majority) could go off on a chase of the wild...
Several students, however, expressed both dissatisfaction and bitterness at the program. "I am now very sorry I ever heard of Soph Standing: I get the impression that I may spend the rest of my school days trying to make the best of what turned out to be a pretty raw deal. I may just fail too, judging from the rank list...
Another replied, "Soph Standing has ruined my academic life here, and it hasn't helped any with extra-curricular activities. I don't want to graduate in three years anyway...