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...increasingly irate students allege that B.U. President John Silber is spearheading an effort to transform the Commonwealth Ave. campus into a more "elite" school by increasing intellectual and financial qualifications for admission...
...Faculty and the core subcommittees. There are indeed valid points to be made on both sides of the question. It is important, however, that all those who can influence the final decision on the adoption of the report's proposals realize the extent to which these reforms will transform General Education and, more importantly, the academic ambience at Harvard...
Although the new core curriculum would totally transform general education at Harvard--leaving few facets of existing programs untouched--up to this point, the Faculty seems almost complacent about overhauling the curriculum...
...crucial question, then, is whether the idea of liberal arts has the power to transform the educational system, or whether the Core proposal is just an anachronistic attempt to resurrect a dead ideal. Proponents of the Core are fighting the educational trends of the last 30 years. It seems that the undertaking will be enormous, and the Core proposal represents only a small step along the way to a liberal education...
...record can still be a subjective work: each time a director casts an actor as a historical figure or chooses a camera angle, he is shaping the facts to serve a personal point of view. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, for example, was scrupulously researched but managed to transform history into nonsense. Washington: Behind Closed Doors, for all its fictionalizations, presented a symbolically credible portrait of moral chaos in Nixon's White House. Both King and Ruby and Oswald claim to be based on fact -and contain obvious inaccuracies. But such things matter less than the grand design...