'Cliffe Council Asks New GE Survey Course

Radcliffe's Student Council will soon ask the Harvard faculty for a General Education course like Dartmouth's "Great Issues" course.

Council has already drafted a letter to the Faculty Committee on General Education, and will probably submit it before the Committee's meeting next month, President Maryalice McArdie said last night.

David E. Owen, chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education, told the CRIMSON last night that he would be "very much interested" in Radcliffe's plan. The new course would have to be officially approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences before it could be added to the curriculum.

Members of the Council yesterday appointed Betty Trygstad Fast '54 and Ann Hopkins '54 as a committee to complete arrangements for presenting the plan.

The suggested survey would be a full year General Education course open to Harvard and Radcliffe juniors and seniors it would cover "current religious, social, and political problems," and would be conducted in one lecture and two discussion periods a week.

When the CRIMSON first reported plans for the course last November, the 'Cliffe forced the resignation of the Annex Burean Chief for "inaccuraey and failure to clear the story with Radcliffe officials."