Word: verba
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...worry, however, that the students were not involved in these discussions. As Verba said, "Basically, we have just exchanged our impressions of the Core and have set up some schedules to meet with various groups, such as the subcommittees [on the Core] and other interested parties, including the student committee from the Undergraduate Council...
...weeks ago, the chair of the committee, Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, said the committee's faculty members had already met. In that meeting, they talked among themselves as well as with a few other faculty members and the Standing Committee on the Core...
...given the runaround, especially since the names of those on the committee still have not been announced. Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said in a fax two weeks ago that he expected to make the appointments "next week." Friday, Knowles' administrative assistant referred an inquiry to either Verba's office or the office of Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core program. Verba was out of town, but his administrative assistant also redirected the query to Lewis' office. Lewis referred questions back to Knowles, saying that she thought the Dean would announce the names this Thursday...
...administration is taking responsibility for the names' being late. And for Knowles' and Verba's offices to refer queries to Lewis is preposterous. Lewis is head of the current Core program and should not have any involvement in choosing students to evaluate the product...
...think we think of our mandate as very broad," Verba said. "We will be looking at the language requirement and the Core and how they relate to each other. We have no idea yet of what we might recommend in those areas...