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...rule changes may not even affect the size of Dr. Davis's program. For one thing, if requirements for eligibility were raised, those students who met the stiffer standards might be far more likely to actually accept Sophomore Standing. In addition, raising the standards might simply encourage more students to take an additional A.P. course in high school without materially affecting the size of Harvard's program...
...Core poses a more interesting problem. The philosophical contradiction between the Core and Advanced Standing was first pointed out to CUE by student members of ERG. The only ways to achieve logical consistency are to abolish the Sophomore Standing Program entirely or to accept the concept (proposed by a CUE faculty member) of a one-to-one credit system between A.P. and Harvard courses. Neither change is likely to be adopted soon...
Short of achieving logical consistency, proper Core credit must be assured for Advanced Standing students. Admittedly, faculty politics are important, but students' welfare should take priority. Dr. Davis feels that students who accept Sophomore Standing and stay four years can "abuse" the program to reduce their Core requirements. But 57 per cent of 569 undergraduates polled by ERG last spring felt that course flexibility was a legitimate reason for an Advanced Standing Program. This is the most important benefit for students who do stay a fourth year. Dr. Davis's proposed legislation would empower the Core Committee to rescind Core...
Dwight W. Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department, says he doubts his tutorial program will change. "The honest answer is no," he admits. Offering a common faculty argument for leaving tutorials in graduate students' hands: If the professor teaches tutorial, he will have to drop a lecture course. Perkins concedes that some professors have managed to carry the double load--Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, is one distinguished example...
...legislation asks each department to set up a student-faculty committee to supervise the tutorial program. Ultimately the reform's effectiveness will depend on the committee's ability to pressure its professors...