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...changes would go into effect next fall, when, if the Faculty approves, all upperclassmen will be allowed to take a free fifth course on a "pass-fail" basis...
...fining system has been under attack by Faculty members for some time. Since the pass-fail plan could encourage several hundred more students to start taking a fifth course, there may be considerable support for getting rid of the fines and establishing the earlier deadline...
There is still no agreement, though, on how late in the term the deadline for dropping the fifth course ought to be. This, and other details of the pass-fail plan, will be discussed by the Administrative Board and the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) during the next few weeks...
...polls also asked which courses students would take under a pass-fail system, and the Office of Tests is now evaluating the answers in an attempt to predict how course enrollments would be affected. The results won't be ready until reading period, Trosper said, and he had expected the CEP to wait for them...
...predicted that there will be some Faculty opposition to the proposal. "There's a lot of concern that pass-fail will create pressure on students to take a fifth course, and start a trend away from the four-course system," he said...