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Under the current system, any faculty member can approve an independent study project. The approval of a course on football coach Joe Restic's multiflex offense by Evan Z. Vogt, master of Kirkland House, triggered some of the recent questions...
...Vogt refused to comment yesterday on the multiflex course, saying he "will have a statement in two or three weeks...
...Master Vogt is a tenured university professor. Joe Restic is a football coach. Vogt signed his name, and the academic prestige of his title, to a course on the Thought of Joe Restic on how to win at football. And 20 students at Harvard University are enrolled in this course for academic credit. Shocking though this might seem to the uninitiated academic, our scenario is not inconsistent with the logic of recent tendencies at this university. Suffice it to mention two related phenomena: (1) the clamoring over-subscription of famous "gut" courses: and (2) the top-heavy enlistment...
...future of academics? Ah--let us see courses on Astrology, on Sooth-saying, and on Winning-at-Checkers. Let us follow in the footsteps of Master Vogt, abdicate from our quaint conceptions of intellectual obligation, and capitulate spinelessly to every rebellious whim of newly-pubescent adolescents who wish to pursue nonsense in the name of knowledge. Let us heed the words of Mr. Restic, who cautions us that "You won't begin to cover the multiflex in one semester," and so let us in all haste fire our existing faculty and offer tenure to the valiant young...
...Book VI of the Republic Plato teaches us something about the difference between Greeks and barbarians. Congratulations to Master Vogt for liberating us from such a foolish conception. John G. Daugman '76 Winthrop House Resident Tutor