Word: exam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quincy's society for its 1980 season. During the showing of Animal House there, several students threw beer cans at the screen and damaged it. To raise money for repairs, the society decided to bring back an old tradition of showing the X-rated film Deep Throat during exam period...
...last meeting of the CUE two weeks ago, the committee supported a plan to cancel classes on the Thursday and Friday before exam week in order to give students a break from work. The committee suggested compensating for the loss of the two class days by having classes on two holidays during the semester...
Lest you leap for the phone, there is one caveat. Not just anyone can be accepted into the program. All applicants must undergo a rigorous series of screenings, including a psychological test, a physical exam, and several interviews. The researchers say they are looking for potential subjects who are "competent in handling drugs," says Orzack. "We're not condoning drug use, just requiring people with experience...
...turned into class days for such purposes. The CUE is now considering three alternative plans for the scheme's presentation. "The first scenario requires all papers to be due before the buffer (the two extra days), while another forces only those students in courses with both a final exam and a paper to hand in their papers before the break. The final alternative has no restriction for papers." This proposal will not advance the interests of those students saddled with big reading period work loads. Rather, the proposal threatens the interests of all students...
...longtime U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Pat grew up in Lexington, Va., and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from hometown Washington and Lee University. After a hitch as a Marine combat officer in Korea, he graduated from the Yale Law School, flunked the New York bar exam and was a partner in a small business. Then at age 26 he had a conversion experience ("At my desk in my office, I leaned back in my chair and burst out laughing . . . I had passed from death into life") and entered the Biblical Seminary in New York City...