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...members of the curricular review committees have called for the replacement of the Core curriculum with a distributional requirement, pushing back concentration choice by a year and possibly switching to a Yale-style housing system, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 told the Undergraduate Council last night...
...We’re going to propose that the Core be replaced,” Gross said at the Council’s weekly meeting...
This is a shame, because case-hardened upperclass students know well the nature of the College’s introductory courses and Core courses. Such classes are often very large, and in several egregious cases like the survey course “Principles of Economics,” professors do not have office hours. The Core Curriculum itself, by herding together non-concentrators, creates a culture with the worst possible incentives: Students are by definition not excited about the subject, and professors suspect...
...British rejection screws up the E.U., so what?" Blair started trying to convince voters of the contrary last week. He portrayed the constitution as a basically benign tidying-up exercise that would streamline E.U. procedures to avoid gridlock as it expands to 25 members, without sapping core national prerogatives to set tax rates and foreign and defense policy. But he also forecast dire results if Britain balked, leaving it isolated on Europe's margins, even tempting the rest of the E.U. countries to wash their hands of pesky Albion and go off on their own. He claimed this was exactly...
...desire to experiment with the use of porn as a motif while still adhering to the restrictions of an R rating. The mold of the standard high school film is certainly broken with The Girl Next Door, but in this particular instance, the result is merely soft-core blandness...