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Faculty with a different perspective must be hired if the department is to change. The inclusion of alternative methods of analysis in the curriculum and the general exam is the worst sort of farce if the department does not hire professors capable of teaching alternative theories. One Economics graduate student defined the problem last week, saying, "They put Marxist analysis on the last general exam, but there was no one in the department teaching Marxist economics...
...Fine Arts from Catholic University many years ago," she says, "and now that I have the time, I want to take some courses in art and literature. It hasn't been too hard getting back into the academic world, but I really won't know until my first exam...
Almost half the freshmen at the University of California at Berkeley flunked an English composition exam this fall. They have had to enroll in a remedial course known around the campus as "Bonehead English." At the University of Miami, the English department has set up an elaborate tutoring center where video tapes are used to help entering students learn grammar, punctuation and organization. At the University of Houston, 60% of the freshmen fail the first three essays they write. Says Jesse Hartley, Houston's director of freshman English: "Students can't carry through an idea in writing; they...
...student in the course, who preferred to remain unidentified, said he had heard the that exam had been submitted to the secretary at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, an hour-and-a-half before the scheduled class meeting...
...said the purpose of yesterday's exam was "to prod the students into taking the self-paced exams." He also said that "alternative or equivalent exams" would be made available to the students "at their convenience...