Word: asterisked
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...negotiators zeroed in on an agreement, the policymakers tended to look more and more over their shoulders at Congress. The White House fired off a cable to Geneva ordering the U.S. delegation to insert an asterisk after the first reference to "treaty" in the Joint Draft Text that was being negotiated. The asterisk called attention to a footnote stipulating that the document, in its final form, might be an agreement for approval by a simple majority of both houses instead of a treaty requiring ratification by two-thirds of the Senate. The Soviets never took the asterisk terribly seriously...
...asterisk is not a punishment, but merely a record of a final taken under unusual circumstances. It will not hurt students who get only a few during their college careers, but it may serve to discourage students who routinely abuse the system in search of better grades...
Compared with the other proposals given serious consideration by administrators--quarantining students until they recovered enough to take the exam, scheduling make-ups over spring vacation, or requiring some physical proof of illness such as a high fever before granting a medical excuse--the asterisk proposal seems especially levelheaded...
...COSMETIC CHANGE, the asterisk is marginally worthwhile, and certainly better than the other changes proposed. Administrators and faculty should continue to think about the sickout problem though and the larger questions it poses about a Harvard education...
...ATTEMPT to discourage the growing numbers of students who flock to University Health Services (UHS) each examination period for medical excuses, the Faculty Council last week ruled that starting next fall an asterisk will appear on transcripts to mark courses in which students have taken make-up exams. The Faculty Council adopted the policy, citing the 300 per cent increase over the last five years in the number of students "sicking out"--as taking a medical excuse is called...