GUTSEEKERS?

To the Editors of the CRIMSON

I have been following the Gen. Ed. debate in your columns with astonishment I went to Radcliffe in the had old days before the Red Book and have not forgotten the sense of excitement and adventure with which twice a year we opened the catalogue to choose our precious distribution courses prescribed only within the broadest limits. Was it going to be philosophy anthropology, or history? An introductory survey of literature or could we talk our way into a more advanced and specialized course?

Much of the current discussion rests on two inconsistent assumptions. (1)Entering students are more mature and better prepared than they used to be (I agree.) (2). Once here they will slide through gut distribution courses, unless confronted with a fairly rigid core of general education requirements. (I don't believe it.)

From my experience as a student and more recently, as a sporadle freshman advisor, I am convinced that, in general students come here eager and excited to explore new vistas, and that they deserve the privilege to choose their curriculum from the widest possible range of courses. Ruth Hubbard '44   Research Associate in Biology