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This Week At Vassar | 1981
In the fall of 1981, students began to worry that their liberal arts education would be compromised by Vassar’s first step towards a core curriculum. Many students were outraged at this attack on their curricular freedom, and The Miscellany News staff editorial of Sept. 25, 1981 argued that, “…by protesting the proposed core curriculum [we] are attempting to save not only our freedom, but our education.” The Committee on Curricular Policies had decided that the class of 1985 must take a Freshman Course and required the class of 1986 to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language. Prior to the amendment, there was no foreign language requirement and the Freshman Course was only recommended, although 95 percent of the class of 1985 enrolled in a Freshman Course.
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