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Curricula Change

Students have long clamored for reorganization
or reorientation of their curricula, or,
at least for a voice in evaluating and establishing
their curricula. Their struggles were
potentially gratified when the curriculum evaluation
committee was established this year
with some students on it. Such a committee
can only function, however, if it has general
student opinion on their courses, opinion
which a few students cannot hope to represent
or convey.

Today's curriculum evaluation, then, is an
ideal opportunity for students to make their
opinions known of all their courses. The
evaluation committee could hope to get no
better idea of those opinions than it could get
from such an evaluation if it is successful. It
therefore behooves students to fill out the
forms they will receive today and tomorrow
conscientiously - they are not long and
ponderous as they were last year, nor will the
report be complicated as it was last year. This
year's evaluation, in that it attempts to do
only what it can, and that what it attempts is
what most needs to be done, will be a real
asset to the evaluation committee and to
future students if it is a success. We encourage
every student to evaluate each of his courses
as fairly and accurately as he can so that it
will be a success.