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...actual number of Vis Stud honors candidates decreases as expected, the department will also be placed in a better position to provide for those seniors who are sincerely motivated in their desire to pursue a major project. Arthur Loeb, head tutor for the department, said Thursday...
Robert G. Gardner '48, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, is fond of describing Vis Stud as a "small department with limited resources." The serious extent of these limitations was made aware to its faculty members Wednesday, as they voted, 9-1, to support a plan of fundamental reorganization in the department including opening admission to all undergraduates...
Under the new guidelines, Vis Stud concentrators will no longer be required to follow the honors program of courses, and instead, be allowed to replace junior and senior tutorials with other courses offered within the department...
More importantly, however, should the Vis Stud faculty's recommendations be adopted this year, "hundreds of faculty hours" would be released from the administrative chores which normally go into screening the large numbers of prospective applicants who apply to the department each spring...
...soon as the General Assembly reconvened last week, black African and Arab spokesmen launched a blistering counterattack. Dahomey's Ambassador Tiamiou Adjibade-currently chairman of the U.N.'s African group-blasted Moynihan for "a deliberately provocative act vis-à-vis President Amin and an unfriendly act toward the O.A.U. If Mr. Moynihan wishes to base his strategy in the U.N. on irreverence, flippancy and irresponsibility, let him know right now that the African group will not allow itself to be intimidated...