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...Rick Tilden '71, co-author of the CUE proposals, said that today's student could not get both "depth and diversity" in a two-year program. "When all the Sesame Street kids reach college age, people will probably begin to leave college early by the age of twenty," he added...
...Rick Tilden '71 and Steve Bowman '72, authors of the CUE report, said they were sure that the three year A.B. program is an "inevitable reform" in the University structure...
...response, CUE member Kate Ecker said that the program would "initiallybe relatively small." Another CUE member, Richard Tilden '71, argued that even if the size of the program did not turn out to be large, the program itself should be available to anyone who wants...
...Tilden and Professor Riesman may be right in suggesting that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences could never agree on a coherent new design. But if there has to be incoherence-or rather diversity-it ought at least to be deliberate, discussed and designed. A debate on the basic underlying issues would have the virtue of clarifying alternatives and of providing a rationale for experiments. Otherwise, we'll have another kind of pluralism, the one that stems from intellectual paralysis and leads to cacophony.Professor of Government
...time, the built-in perils of the electoral system may indeed lead to a presidential election deadlock similar to the Hayes-Tilden race in 1876. That would force Congress to make a change. But in the absence of such a crisis, a small but crucial bloc is likely to continue to force Congress to hew to a line of thought expressed in 1956 by Senator John F. Kennedy, who four years later was himself involved in a presidential election in which his electoral-vote margin was large, his popular plurality razor thin. "It seems to me that Falkland...