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ROSOVSKY CLAIMS he never intended for these students to serve as representatives. "This isn't a matter of democracy. These students aren't holding a political office," he said last week. "They are there to provide student input...
...student committee members are indeed chosen--at least indirectly--as representatives. At Rosovsky's request, the Educational Resources Group (ERG) elected these students from its ranks. ERG members, in turn, are elected yearly in the Houses. Conveniently ignoring this selection process, Rosovsky insists that students on the Core Committees should just express their ideas and not try to act as spokesmen for the student body. If Rosovsky just wanted random ideas, he could have bypassed ERG and picked the members arbitrarily...
...rate, the student members uniformly call themselves representatives. Maxime S. Pfeffer '81, one of the student members on the standing committee, said last week that the committee rules impose restraints that continually handicap her ability to serve as an effective delegate. "It's so frustrating when you can't communicate any information to your constituents. Our hands are tied," she said...
...student body should clearly have a voice in this discussion. Many Core courses are based on existing introductory departmental and General Education courses. Students who took these courses--and almost all have large enrollments--can offer valuable suggestions as to how the Faculty might strengthen the classes. Such advice could ensure that the Core program avoids the floundering and lack of direction that plagued Gen Ed, its ill-fated predecessor...
Rosovsky's final line of justification then for discouraging student involvement--that the Core will not affect students now enrolled--also proves illogical. This same argument might be applied to the Faculty with equal validity. Professors who will retire next year, assistant professors who will not receive tenure and professors who don't plan to teach Core courses are also unaffected by the Core. Should Rosovsky have barned them from the Faculty debates on the Core Curriculum last year...