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...action came in response to requests from Jewish students to change the Saturday exam schedule system...
Under orthodox Jewish beliefs, students are not permitted to take exams on Saturday. Harvard Jews observing the prohibition may come to the regularly scheduled exam period and wait under the supervision of a proctor until sundown to begin the exam. The students are required to pay a proctor at the rate of $2.50 an hour during the waiting period and the examination...
...Harvard-Radeliffe Hillel last Spring proposed a five-day exam week to eliminate the Saturday conflict for Jewish students. Hillel also proposed and honor system in which students could take an exam the day before or after any Saturday exam conflicts...
Robert Shenton, registrar of the College, said yesterday that the Faculty Council did not change the exam period schedule because "we would have had to spread the period thin or shorten it." According to Shenton, the changes proposed to accommodate Jewish students "would be a hardship for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...only benefit of the crime, which he now calls "dumb," was that Kemp got a pretrial mental exam at Bellevue Hospital, where he became good friends with Novelist Norman Mailer, who was in for stabbing his wife (she later refused to press charges). Given a sentence of ten to twelve years, Kemp began smuggling short-story manuscripts out of prison for Mailer's comments and corrections. He trained himself partly by rewriting passages of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in his own words. He also learned French and earned a high school equivalency certificate. "Somewhere around...