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Re: Ready for drugs

On 3/28/02 12:32 PM, "Margaret Lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I may out-grump you, but "avoid science?"  You've got to be kidding.  If
> you're a liberal arts major, you're NOT PERMITTED to take a science class,
> especially one such as biology.  All of the sections are full of science
> majors.  If you later work on a M.S., biology prerequisites are
> waived.  This situation in our institutions of higher learning (I know it's
> true in Colorado and Washington, and I'd bet it's true across the country)
> is a national disgrace.  Just one of many, I guess.  Margaret Lauterbach

I'm not sure at which college you were a "liberal arts major," Margaret, but
no liberal arts institution worth its salt allows any student to graduate
without a solid foundation in the sciences.  Typical of my school and many
others of the same type is the requirement for ALL students of 3-5 semesters
of the sciences, usually distributed so as not to have it all in one field.
Granted, this is pretty slim pickings for the main distinguishing
characteristic of our western culture.  But your characterization is a
serious distortion of the situation--at least as I have experienced it in 35
years of college teaching.

Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
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