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...There are alternative hypotheses to saying things have gotten easier and they're handing out A's," says Margaret E. Bourdeaux '97. "I think teaching has improved and students are doing better...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: College Considers Grade Inflation | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...feel our discussion of adding the means of the classes is increasing the extrinsic pressure in the name of rigor," said Margaret E. Bourdeaux '9?, a student member of the committee. "We're increasing pressures that have nothing to do with learning...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: CUE Recommends Change of Grade Scale | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

...good Harvard student might suspect, bureaucracy is also a stumbling block. "It's frustrating to think that everything needs to be approved," says Bourdeaux. The university does not officially allow unchartered organizations to poster on campus, for example. Animae Society president Michael Kim '97 cites the difficulties involved in postering and recruiting for a new group. "On the whole the Dean of Students was very helpful and really glad to help out, except in publicity," he says. But unbeknownst to many, Kim explains, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard will grant postering permission to certain unchartered groups. Others like Luke...

Author: By Irene S. Hsu, | Title: Group Initiation | 4/13/1995 | See Source »

Michael Luo '98, founder of Diversity and Distinction, a magazine dedicated to minority concerns, claims that it's "pretty easy to start an organization" but that "money is everything." Money, says Margaret E. Bourdeaux '97, has been one of her biggest obstacles in developing the as yet unchartered Hippocratic Society. Recruiting members has been "hard on the pocketbook," she confirms...

Author: By Irene S. Hsu, | Title: Group Initiation | 4/13/1995 | See Source »

Murrow and Bourdeaux said they first discussedthe possibility of the society after taking"General Education 105: The Literature of SocialReflection," taught by Professor of Psychiatry andMedical Humanities Robert Coles '50. The two thentalked over the idea of the organization withColes...

Author: By Rachel C. Telegen, | Title: Pre-Meds Begin Ethics Society | 3/21/1995 | See Source »

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