Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Efforts by the student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) to create a two-day buffer period during reading period stalled yesterday when the committee decided the issue needed further study before being put to a vote by the Faculty Council...
...will come from are still indefinite. It is possible that two holidays during the school year will be turned into class days for such purposes. The CUE is now considering three alternative plans for the scheme's presentation. "The first scenario requires all papers to be due before the buffer (the two extra days), while another forces only those students in courses with both a final exam and a paper to hand in their papers before the break. The final alternative has no restriction for papers." This proposal will not advance the interests of those students saddled with big reading...
...primary causes of all this talk are classes that continue with papers and exams well into reading period. There is no reason to believe that the people who teach these classes will not simply extend the work into the "buffer period" of two days despite efforts to restrict work during that period. As Mr. Barron and Mr. Saal pointed out, reading period was "originally set aside...as lecture-free time." Yet, CUE Chairman Dean Steven Ozment himself said "No faculty member will dictate to another how to teach their courses. Once you're in a class you play...
...right. Since the CUE is perfectly willing to let this continue, its response is to make reading period longer. But, the professors in question have already managed to take over the normal reading period despite its avowed purpose. There is no reason why they will not intrude into the "buffer" days. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that these professors will take over this "buffer period". Consider Dean Ozment's admonition that faculty will not dictate to faculty how to run classes. In essence, the CUE is planning a tactical retreat doomed to failure...
...Metal All will scratch unless you use a high-speed buffer...