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Defenders of the Core Program have justified these restrictions by arguing that Core courses are carefully reviewed to ensure consistency in grading and to avoid forcing students into classes with substantial prerequisite knowledge. Yet the workload and grading patterns of “International Conflict and Cooperation” and “First Nights” show a world of difference, and as far as prerequisite knowledge goes, in case the Core Committee has not yet noticed, several Foreign Cultures classes are conducted in a foreign language. In any case, students should be free to forgo these benefits...
...male counterparts, a "startling difference" the Navy had not expected to see, according to a new study. "With a female-to-male visit ratio of more than 9 to 1, the conversion of a ship with an all-male crew to 10 percent female would essentially double the clinical workload of the ship's medical department," says the article in the latest issue of Military Medicine, a respected professional journal for U.S. military physicians...
Even when Summer eliminated medical procedures specific to women from his calculations, females visited the ship's doctor six times more often than their male counterparts. "At this rate," he said, "the workload of a ship's medical department will increase substantially when integrating women into an all-male crew...
...report by calling for more study as to why women may be using medical facilities aboard ships at a higher rate than their male colleagues, even for gender-neutral problems. "Although some questions remain, one fact is clear: The addition of female crew members will significantly increase the workload of a ship's medical department, probably to a greater degree than expected," he said...
...nominations, amendments and bills should be seen as a responsibility. It would take only a short initial investment of programming time to make the council's website into a powerful resource for students to check on their representatives' attendance and voting patterns. After the system is created, the additional workload of entering information would be minor compared to the benefits increased transparency would bring the student community...