Word: cues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) doesn't have any professors of mathematics as members. This fact has become painfully obvious in its ongoing and bumbling efforts to smooth out Harvard's grading scale...
...upper echelons of grades: A (15 points), A- (14 points), B+ (12 points), B (11 points), B- (10 points), etc. Notice the large gap between A- and B+. Some people view this gap as a good thing--it puts a real premium on any A grades. But the CUE has decided to close the gap. Exactly how to do so has become a quagmire of arithmetic, almost geometric, nay, exponential proportions...
...Some CUE members have recommended adding the grade A-/B+ to the scale, giving it a weight of 13 points. This change would allegedly make our grading system "proportional...
Clearly, some CUE members have not considered the intracacies of the grading process. Until the fundamental disparities discussed above are eradicated, no grading system will satisfy the CUE's lofty if misconceived ideals...
...CUE members discussed three ideas for choosing student members if student membership is allowed: placing the responsibility for student selection with the Undergraduate Council, having Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. knowles make the selections or having the council present a list of students from which the dean would make his selections