Word: pass-fail
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...Faculty Council decided yesterday it will welcome an amendment to new honors regulations that would avoid penalizing students for taking courses pass-fail outside their concentrations...
Francis M. Pipkin, chairman of the Faculty's Ad Hoc Committee on Honors, said yesterday several members of the council object to the new requirements because they equate pass-fail and failing grades. Others object to the fact that students can get D's in half their non-concentration courses outside and still graduate with honors, he said...
Under the new requirements, pass-fail courses reduce a candidate's chances for magna and cum laude degrees, beginning with the class...
...very great number of students are upset and want to change the status of their spring-semester courses from pass-fail to graded, the Ad Board will announce a procedure to allow them to do so, Whitlock said...
Several senior tutors yesterday suggested that the Administrative Board allow freshmen and sophomores to change their pass-fail courses taken this semester to graded status, in order to avoid jeapordizing their chances for honors degrees under new regulations approved last week...