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Faculty members consistently attributed their qualms about the revised calendar to their perception that it was primarily focused on the "comfort level" of students...
...addition to having popular support, the calendar endured the lengthy deliberations of a reluctant Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...council's proposal to reform the academic calendar to complete fall examinations before the winter recess was pushed through the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), although the Faculty Council ultimately rejected it last month (please see related story, this page...
This attitude was evident most recently at a meeting of the Faculty Council, just three weeks ago. There, the assembled professors were scheduled to discuss a student proposal to reform the academic calendar...
More galling even than the brusque, insensitive manner in which the calendar reform proposal was killed was the arrogant, self-serving Faculty logic underlying the move. Explained Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, "The Faculty Council seemed to feel that any major change in the status quo should not be entered into without a clear-cut advantage presenting itself in the proposed new arrangement...