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McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68’s proposal??currently awaiting the registrar’s approval—would issue a laptop computer to every student come exam time this spring. The idea is part of Lewis’s unique take on memorization: he thinks it’s so 20th century. If you can just point, click, and Google to get whatever information you want, why should you ever be asked to know it yourself...
While ASCR narrowly recommended the proposal for ExxonMobil, CCSR abstained, citing the resolution’s poor wording—and instead, wrote a letter to the company’s management asking it to address the proposal??s concerns. CCSR member Houghton, a former chairman of the ExxonMobil, is a director on its board...
...proposal??currently being vetted by Department of Education officials—would expand an existing database to allow researchers to track individual students who drop out of college or transfer between institutions. It would include information ranging from social security numbers to participation in varsity sports...
...proposal has driven a wedge between public universities, whose heads largely support the change, and private institutions, whose leaders are among the proposal??s most vehement critics...
...feel this fee should be optional—so as to provide the EAC with a mandate to sway the administration. But the question of whether to make the fee “opt-out” or “opt-in” is more complicated. The proposal??s backers called for an opt-out charge, arguing that an opt-in fee would under-represent students who support the initiative since only those students who noticed to check the box would do so. On the other hand, making the fee opt-out might exaggerate support?...