Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amidst its hallowed scenery of wrought iron gates, crawling dark green ivy and Gothic halls adorned by little orange and black seals. Princeton University upperclassmen returned last fall to find the pristine center campus quiet and unchanged from generations past. But on the outskirts of Princeton's territory, underclassmen wake each day to clamoring sounds from campus renovation and construction, as the school's new residential college system gets under...
...similar well-thought-out introductions to sociology, anthropology and psychology should join Soc Anal 10. The Humanities Core should incorporate existing surveys of fine arts, of various cultural histories and literatures, of Shakespeare, and of philosophy. The sciences should expand on a sensible modification recently made public, which allows upperclassmen to count certain introductory science courses, such as Physics 12 and Chem 5a for the Core--presumably to ease the lot of premeds, until now the most hapless victims of Core rigidity...
...which eager minds, thirsting for general knowledge, should be turned away. Clearly, the need for a consistent policy will become more urgent as the Core grows. Upperclassmen are quick to recognize that exiling freshmen is the only sensible solution, but roughly one fourth of Harvard undergraduates are curiously blind to this crystal logic. True gamblers, these freshmen prefer to go for broke with a random lottery. Both systems have some merit, and we advocate the oft-sought happy medium--a random lottery weighted for seniority for all oversubscribed courses...
Weighting a random lottery in favor of upperclassmen should present the most palatable compromise--one which avoids squabbles over access for concentrators, a perennially shaky question. Most Core courses required for a particular department should remain unrestricted, but in the interests of simplicity, equity and sanity, the College should adopt one comprehensive policy--a weighted lottery should offer such a solution...
...Efficacy Committee, working with the College, which pays its operating expenses, also offers a six-day seminar in the spring and fall for minority upperclassmen...