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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Short of achieving logical consistency, proper Core credit must be assured for Advanced Standing students. Admittedly, faculty politics are important, but students' welfare should take priority. Dr. Davis feels that students who accept Sophomore Standing and stay four years can "abuse" the program to reduce their Core requirements. But 57 per cent of 569 undergraduates polled by ERG last spring felt that course flexibility was a legitimate reason for an Advanced Standing Program. This is the most important benefit for students who do stay a fourth year. Dr. Davis's proposed legislation would empower the Core Committee to rescind Core...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advanced Standing Program: Playing with Numbers and the Core | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Take Dartmouth, for example, the supreme Big Green who, with the aid of running backs Jeff Dufresne and Greg Henry and split end Dave Shula, were supposed to breeze through the early part of the season in defending the Ivy title...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tigers, Elis Winners in Ivy Openers | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...biggest problem for both teams seemed to be overrunning the ball, which had a tendency to take long baths on its way down the field...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Down Bears | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Fischer helped take some pressure off the fullbacks in the second half with some nice fakes while Harvard freshman Jeanne Piersiak took advantage of the slippery field and came up with a slide tackle that would have made any rugby player jealous...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Down Bears | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Conn. As a courtesy he had invited Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican, to join him on the plane. When reporters asked Weicker about Kennedy, he replied that all Republican officeholders were hoping that Carter would head the ticket. Said Weicker: "If Kennedy runs in Connecticut, he threatens to take the whole shebang with him. He would win in a landslide." Complained White House Press Secretary Jody Powell of Weicker: "Courtesy is a two-way street. I always thought that anyone who was born rich would also have been brought up with some manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy: Ready, Set... | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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