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...John M. Bullitt, senior tutor in English, says, however, that only a high magna-low cum discrepancy occurred this year. Bullitt may be technically correct after a fashion. But sources said that in two cases, submitted grades were changed before the final thesis grade was calculated...
...Bullitt denies that any thesis grade was changed for appearance's sake, but he not only admitted that some grades were altered, he defended the right of a Faculty member to raise or lower a thesis grade that he gave. "Sometimes a professor is feeling particularly dispeptic, Bullitt said, "and after he goes home, he thinks it over, and comes to me the next morning to change the grade...
...Bullitt argued that there is nothing wrong with changing one's mind, but according to the sources, the grade-changing was not of the type that Bullitt described. The sources said the alterations came after the meeting with Heimert, and usually the graduate student was the reader who lowered the grade...
Graduate students feel pressure in thesis grading, primarily because in most departments, the other reader is a senior Faculty member, and a grad student's future depends on senior Faculty in the department. Bullitt says that Heimert attended the meetings to protect the grad students from pressure, but he scoffed at the possibility that Heimert's presence--that of a third senior Faculty member and chairman of the department--would add more pressure, not less. "If a graduate student can't stand by his grade," Bullitt said, "he doesn't deserve to read theses...
...camera; Nauman Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square; and an effort named Bouncing Balls, 1969, a long closeup of Nauman's unremarkable testicles jiggling up and down. It makes the most tedious of Warhol's movies seem like the chase scene in Bullitt. Every so often, Nauman inflects the monotony a little by putting the camera on its side, or (daring innovation!) upside down. And occasionally he gives the tape some irritant value, as in an inverted closeup of his own face repeating over and over the words "lip sync." But that...