Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

conix -- "Oakley rejected that dropping the algebra requirement was lowering standards. He also proposed to replace the course with a reputedly more practical discipline, such as statistics."

good luck trying to teach a(ny real) statistics course to students who can't handle basic algebra -- or perhaps Oakley meant just 'teaching' students to be able to recite from rote a few random statistics? -- '100% of unambiguously male pigs are born with piggly wigglies! So there!'