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These exceptions, however, would serve to assist rather than hinder students' growth. Similarly, those few existing Cores which could not, for whatever reason, be integrated into the departments would continue as General Education courses and would be cross-listed for distribution credit. Although some coordinating body would oversee the process, its main mission would be to lobby the departments on the students' behalf; it would not have the influence that the Core committee currently exercises over course decisions...
...this be? The same process of investigation that lead to the concepts used in a car engine lead to evolutionary theory. Only hypocrisy or arbitrariness could allow us to discard one for the other. I shouldn't even have to say this, but as far as science goes, evolution is as "proven" as anything becomes. Numerous fields of evidence from vestigial structures to genetic correlation to documented speciation support the scientific community's acceptance of evolution. The volume of such evidence puts evolutionary theory alongside such staples of science as atomic theory or cell theory...
...late-night vote last month, the school committee split four-three to oppose a proposal by district administrators to keep the school assignment process random...
Since the vote, committee members who opposed the district administrators' proposal have faced a ferocious volley of criticism from parents who want to keep the selection process random at the high school...
Committee member Alfred B. Fantini, who joined Joseph G. Grassi and Galluccio in supporting the administration's proposal to keep the school selection process random, said parental choice at CRLS is a decision for Evans and D'Alessandro to make, not a policy question for the school committee to question...