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...past academic year, only a quarter of all courses offered by the College gave full-length exams, reflecting a recent trend away from that style of examination...
...some professors expressed concern at yesterday’s meeting that the trend toward fewer exams on campus may lead to alternate forms of assessment that are less effective at differentiating academic performance among students...
...going to vote for it because it seems reasonable and saves a lot of bureaucracy,” English Department Chair James T. Engell ’73 said. “But I want my fellow colleagues...to realize what the historical trend in the college is—it is to examine less and less and less and less...
...responses come uniformly back: “Thanks!!!” You have to wonder: is the responder really as excited about answering as they sound? In any case, ending ordinary e-mail or text message correspondences in this manner has become increasingly normal. However, it illustrates a dangerous trend in punctuation: the overuse of the exclamation point. Although the more frequent use of this point may appear to just be a better representation of our own exuberance, the consequences of this trend include misrepresentations of our meanings and emotions...
...does the abuse of performance enhancers extend beyond professional sports? It might surprise some to know that in the realm of academics, there is a growing trend, both in high school and in college, of students abusing prescription drugs to boost their ability to study and concentrate on tests. Use of any type of prescription drug for cognitive gain should be looked down upon with the same amount of social repugnance as juicing up for a sport...