Word: validating
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...courses that will affect only future generations of students. The shallowness of this statement becomes apparent when the logic is applied to the Faculty--some of whom will leave Harvard, some of whom will not choose to teach Core courses. Moreover, Rosovsky is implicitly denying that students have a valid perspective on their own educations. The Faculty created the Core Curriculum to replace the flawed and misdirected General Education program. As students under Gen Ed's sway, present undergraduates have a unique outlook on the program. They are well qualified to suggest ways in which the Faculty might best avoid...
...girl, a local college student, was taken to the police station when arresting officers found that she was not carrying her driver's license. A computer check quickly revealed that she did indeed have a valid license, and she sent a friend who was with her to pick it up at home. But what seemed to be merely an annoying incident took a decidedly ugly turn. According to her lawyer, Jane Doe then went through an embarrassing series of events. She was led into a room by a police matron and ordered to strip...
...F.W.A. women, as Ellen Sachar put it, was "so naive as to think if she sat next to [Mobil Chairman] Rawleigh Warner at breakfast, he would invite her on the Mobil board at lunch." But what these women are telling corporate executives is that it is no longer valid to contend that there are not many qualified women for boards...
...facing public broadcasting today. But its solutions--obscured in page after page of tortured prose--tend to skirt the reality that advocating funding panaceas on a large scale will not change the political climate. To justify its proposals, the commission offers familiar attacks against commercial television, arguments which, though valid, do little towards establishing a workable proposal. No one should argue that public television in the United States should be put out of its misery. A practical solution might suggest concentrating on local efforts, reducing reliance on federal funds and paring down the existing bureaucracy. But pragmatism takes a back...
Henderson said any reforms would have to be carefully formulated to avoid "eliminating the valid courses...