Word: grading
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Harvard beat Northeastern in the consolation, 4-2, and freshman goalie Paul Skidmore led Boston College in a 5-3 upset of the Terriers, but I wasn't there. I was too busy trying to reconcile the simultaneous allure and disappointment of my first Beanpot with a non-honors grade in the Government exam. Typical freshman...
...Berkeley, a group of female sociology students at the University of California banded together as Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment (WOASH) and waged a yearlong campaign against Elbaki Hermassi, an assistant professor of sociology. He was charged with fondling and propositioning 13 students, offering a good grade in exchange for sex, and writing an unfavorable letter of recommendation for a student who refused his sexual advances. Charges were brought to Hermassi's department chairman. The professor was reprimanded orally, and according to the university the behavior stopped. But WOASH dismissed the reprimand as a "slap on the wrist...
...contention that politics and education are separable, how well then does Harvard educate its students? I have met few students satisfied with their Harvard education. Most long for a mentor, dream wistfully about intellectual excitement or exchange. Many cannot quite conquer the sense of guilt about receiving a good grade for a course they learned two days before the final exam. A history professor once described to me his frustration about the "missing" students here, the ones who get gentlemen's Cs and disappear from official view. These are students who never go to their courses, who have never talked...
Jury selection was so prolonged that Tomko joked, "At this rate, my newborn daughter will be in first grade by the time we begin." And in graduate school before they end. Together the two sides may call between 150 and 200 witnesses before the case goes to the jury and the fate of Jimmy Carter's old friend is decided...
...birdcage plan states that students who opt for make-up exams will receive a # sign next to the grade from that course on all academic records...