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...erosion of the General Education program has not been orderly. But there are intelligent and valid reasons for why such a distortion has taken place. First, Faculty members have never shown a wide-spread willingness to teach the type of basic introductory courses the General Education program originally envisioned. Second, students have consistently pressured administrators to offer a program of free choice. They have shown a stubborn resistance to requirements that run counter to their academic interests. If anything, the program now is a vivid demonstration that students favor a freely elective system that gives them the option to choose...
...real issue, however, is the effect of this new policy on the freshman class. We feel that freshmen receive the most valid perspective on University life by being exposed to as many upperclass houses as possible, and that this exposure is best availed by rotating assignments for weekend meals. All of us were freshmen under this previous policy, and feel that it was an invaluable aid for choosing housing in the spring and for learning more about University life in general...
DIVORCE. The Catholic Church has never recognized divorce in any marriage that it considers valid. The American bishops in 1884 decreed automatic excommunication for divorced Catholics who remarried while their original spouses were alive. "A Call to Action" asked that the church repeal the excommunication edict. It also opposed any practices that "brand separated, divorced, and divorced remarried Catholics as failures or discriminate against them and their children...
...forgotten. The age of throwaway containers has relegated the containers of work, worship, play, the family and the community to no-deposit, no-return status. Unless a building is consecrated "historic" by some authority, no one thinks to recycle it when its original function ceases to be historically valid, or when the structure can no longer hold the activity for which it was built. Instead, we replace the old construction with something which serves the demands of the moment and the market...
Scalise said he let them play to the same extent that their excuses were valid...