Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Satyajit Ray, the Indian director who made the Apu trilogy about a poor village youth who migrates to a city, has shifted in Charulata to a study of the upper classes. Ray's camera roams with almost tactile pleasure over the sets of delicately embroidered furniture, wide leafy gardens, and other richly-patterned items of the Indian aristocracy...
...articles (one by federal housing official Robert Weaver) deal with New Towns, i.e. autonomous suburban communities planned and created in one stroke. Their main point of agreement is an insistence that lower-income housing be included. Both articles point out a trend toward upper-income New Towns; but as graduate student David Dasch observes, no town can exist without garbage men. Two basic assumptions in the design of New Towns seem to be that green expanses should be maximized, and ranch houses eliminated...
...fact, the CEP's program offers the prospect of a battery of new upper-level courses, differing in content and perhaps in pre-requisites. To enhance this prospect, the Faculty should instruct the Committee on General Education to require calculus for upper-level Natural Science courses. Thus a professor in the sciences could expect a class with some background in science and advanced mathematics, and could plan a General Education course at the same time stimulating and rigorous...
...step requirement in Humanities and Social Sciences is equally sensible. It is true that the introductory departmental course will not in every case provide background for the upper-level General Education course. A student may be no better prepared for Social Sciences 139, "The Life Cycle," after passing Economics 1. But the prerequisite does insure that students will get a relatively broad view of an area, which an upper-level course alone might not provide. A student who has taken Economics 1 and Social Sciences 139 (plays presumably another half course in Social Sciences) has had a good general education...
...them. Their plan assumes, as they admit, the existence of a body of courses which are not in the catalogue at present. Yet they say that the plan can be put into operation "without sweeping immediate changes or expansion of offerings." What they overlook is the present nature of upper-level General Education courses: a hodge-podge of brilliant courses, that provide general education by any definition, and very narrow all-but-departmental courses. Someone is going to have to go over the roster of these courses carefully and decide whether the "History of the Book," "Narrative in Oral Literature...