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Moments earlier, committee chairman George C. Homans '32 had told CUE that Nagy's plan, with or without amendments suggested by committee members, would probably encounter "trouble" in the Faculty Council, which would have to approve the proposal...
...several committee members said the third option would "eliminate make-ups but encourage sick-outs. "Harry R. Lewis, associate professor of Computer Science, said CUE members "have to take a moral stance" on the issue and dissuade students from avoiding final exams...
...committee also disagreed over how much final exams should count under the option. Michael Walsh '83, a nonvoting member of CUE, said a final counting 25 per cent of a student's course grade--as Nagy's proposal suggests--would play too small a role in determining a coursewide grade, adding, "What matters is what you know at the end of the course. In some cases it should be 100 per cent...
Others criticized the proposal for penalizing students who missed the final exam because of genuine illness. Charles S. Boulas '83, another member of CUE, noted that the double-asterisk Nagy proposed to place on the transcripts of students whose grades were based on coursework not including a final might reflect poorly on the student forced to miss the final for legitimate reasons...
Homans, who said he favored Nagy's proposal, noted that the plan's mixed reception within the Educational Resources Group--a student committee that sends members to CUE--meant that "we're never going to get it through the Faculty Council...