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GIVEN THE INEVITABILITY of an administrative response to the 300 per cent increase in sick outs over the last five years, the plan to place an asterisk after a grade received for a make-up exam is a reasonably good...
...decided to deal with the matter in a rather typical, ne'er compromising, institutional fashion. First, the ad board perceives the problem thusly: how do we lower the number of sickouts? There are three or four options, according to Dean K. Whitla, director of instructional research and evaluation. An asterisk could be attached to the final grade on a student's transcript, indicating the grade was completed with a make-up exam. Make-up exams could be scheduled at more inconvenient times--or perhaps the exams themselves could be made more difficult. All this to discourage the students from sicking...
Committee members debated moving make-up exams closer to the regular exam period, in order to discourage "malingerers," or putting an asterisk next to grades received after extended periods...
...asterisk might also be attached to any grade that was the result of an extended period of time," Whitla added...
...Radeliffe oarswomen win the 1978 Sprints? Well, no. But did they lose? Well, no. It takes an asterisk to explain that...