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...letters note that 16.3 per cent of undergraduate grades are A's and 20.9 per cent are A-minuses. But, Whitla noted, some courses give significantly more or fewer high grades than the University-wide average...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Faculty Gets Grading Studies | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

University faculty and staff who retired before July, 1973, will receive pension increases of up to 25 per cent. Joan Bruce, manager of benefits administration, said yesterday. The Corporation approved the benefits increase at a meeting last month...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: University Increases Pension To Retired Faculty and Staff | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...stereotype is damaging. The greatest shock to my naivete about homosexuality was finding out how common it is. Studies to determine exactly how many people are gay consistently settle around 10 per cent of the population. This means there are 20 to 25 million gay Americans. The 10-per-cent figure at first seemed to me impossible because so few people. I knew fit the image I had of a gay person. I have since realized that the vast majority of gay people do not fit this image. These are the gays we do not perceive. They come from...

Author: By Nathan S. Szanton, | Title: When Your Best Friend Tells You He's Gay | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

More expensive than the nutrients is the electricity needed to run such an outfit. Without natural sunlight, expensive high intensity lamps must be purchased. When the San Fransisco warehouse's electricity bills jumped 1500 per cent the police became suspicious, leading to the DEA's raid on the stash...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Hydroponics for Pot | 2/11/1981 | See Source »

...years," she said. Fennema also disagreed with the researchers' interpretation from the data that superior male ability in mathematics might be a genetic pattern, pointing out that the study included only a narrow sample of students. "They (the tested sample) are in the upper 2 to 5 per cent of the population. When the researchers try to generalize back to the rest of the population, that is not scientifically sound," she said...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Study Shows Higher Male Math Ability | 2/11/1981 | See Source »

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