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...bravely abandoning junior generals. It was only last year that the Department voted to create the exams and the easy course would have been to use this years juniors as guinea pigs to measure the tests' effectiveness. But the department recognized that its experiment, heavily attacked in an HPC audit this fall, was not working and was willing the admit the exams were a mistake...
...they won't get anything done." The project overlaps with the work of the Dunlop Committee, a group of seven professors now completing a year-long study of the problems of hiring and retaining faculty, and most of its recommendations would probably carry more weight if filtered through the HPC...
...rival structure to the HPC has been shakily taking shape in the last two months. It is called the Harvard Education Project and plans to make a sweeping study--perhaps taking as long as two years--to determine how closely Harvard approximates an ideal University and what should be changed here. Norr says that he first understood that the project would be "a temporary super-committee of the HPC," but it now seems more likely that those running the project, activists by disposition, will want to issue policy papers recommending reforms themselves...
ONLY a part of the HPC's immediate future appears bleak. The saturation effect which may block further changes by the CEP-Faculty route does not apply to the HPC audits which grow steadily more prestigious and powerful. The first of the great audits brought major changes in the Government Department. One this fall led the History Department to junk junior generals Monday. Three minor changes the HPC recommended in History and Literature drew an immediate response, and the HPC Arch Sci committee, working with like-minded Faculty members, was able to write the prospectus for a new department...
...prestige, political shrewdness, and orderly techniques of the HPC aren't a final solution to the problem of representing student interests, but they do have a genuine value. "Individual Faculty members aren't antagonistic to students' ideas unless they are socked into a political confrontation situation," Glimp said last week. "The real problem is how a question goes at the Faculty. They are annoyingly aware that it's a ball game they ought to be calling...