Word: problems
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Original Reading Period legislation leaves it up to each professor whether to schedule a Reading Period in each of his courses. Those instructors who decide not to hold Reading Period may continue to lecture, schedule labs, and give problem sets right up to the first day of exams...
...practice, of course, most professors--especially outside of the natural sciences--accept the fact of life that Reading Period begins about two weeks before exams and reduce the workload in their courses. But the practice, especially prevalent in the sciences, of assigning problem sets and giving hourlies right up to exam period shocks many humanities and social science students...
...problem that recurs each September is the unfamiliarity of entering freshmen with potential dangers of Cambridge and Boston at night. Cute signs like the one saying "Go Groupy at Night" draw only limited attention to the problem...
...address this problem, the Freshman Dean's Office and Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, have instituted an informational program on security for incoming freshmen this fall. Whether it is effective in educating students about safety--by telling them about the "blue phones" on campus and of areas to avoid in Cambridge and Boston--remains to be seen...
...academic institution, the College will probably continue to give priority to educational concerns, at least until advisers from within instead of students from without bring up the energy problem. "As oil hits higher and higher marks," Olsen argues, "they will have to look at it. The ironic thing is that they're going to have to do it eventually anyway." For now, however, administrators are not sold on the idea, and something more than the assembly's $250,000 predicted savings would be needed to convince them to incur the educational costs they see in the proposal...