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Harvard currently requires all students to demonstrate a proficiency in a foreign language through either an achievement test or one year in a language course. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, and his task force on the Core which drew up the preliminary Core proposals and presented them in 1977, recommended that the Faculty abolish the language requirement. The final Core report says the language requirement should remain, but also says, "in view of the complex questions attendant on implementing such a view...all of which require further study, we recommend that the dean appoint a special committee...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education, a student-faculty advisory group, convinced the Faculty Council last spring to delete a section of the Core report that recommended instituting a placement test to allow qualified freshmen to place out of the Expos requirement. Marius says he does not want to see that recommendation reinstated. "It would put a lot of pressure on us if Expos were branded as a remedial course," Marius says. "You get enough opposition to any course that is required without making students feel that their presence in the course is in some way a failure." He adds, "I would...
...addition to the DEQE appeal hearing, a trial that may test the DEQE's power to impose certain prohibitions on construction is also slated for this fall. The DEQE has approved the portions of the power plant designed to produce steam and chilled water, but prohibited installation of the diesel generators. University counsels interpret these decisions as permitting installation of all the components of the power plant other than the generators...
...DEQE, however, ruled on June 29 that in addition to the generators themselves, other items relating to the electricity generators could not be installed. These items include piping, ducting and storage facilities. A trial in the Suffolk Country Superior Court will test this case on its merits on September 19. Until then, Harvard has a temporary injunction restraining the DEQE or the state Attorney General's Office from enforcing the decision...
This summit meeting may be the most trying test Carter has had of his ability as a negotiator and reconciler. Sitting on the porch of Aspen Lodge, overlooking the pool, he will try to dispel the suspicions and antagonisms that have built up between Sadat and Begin. Said one top Administration official: "It's not so mechanical as in a strategic negotiating session. A lot stems from human qualities and reactions. The introduction of ideas depends on intuitive insight...