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Tell me if this has ever happened to you. You're sitting up half the night, either in a library or in your room, pounding away at a paper or problem set or studying your brains out for an exam. (OK, that much I know has happened to you.) You jump into bed at around three in the morning, priming yourself for your class, review session, or even your exam by telling yourself, "No problem, I'm in bed. Thank goodness I'm getting six hours of sleep." And then it happens: you don't sleep...
GENTLEMEN: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50' of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
Artful equivocartions are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad things is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...
...third semester in a row, night-owls have the option of doing late-night studying for their finals in Cabot Science Library, which is currently open 24 hours a day through the end of exam period...
...their lives on the line. Someone like Blondie should never have been given a badge. If Americans want to end police brutality and corruption, we must re-evaluate hiring practices. Last year an applicant for a police force was rejected because he scored too high on the entrance exam. All too often applicants are hired on the basis of whether they meet affirmative-action goals rather than on merit. To maintain a police force whose members will not yield to the temptation of corruption, municipalities must raise both police salaries and hiring standards to attract the most qualified individuals. ROBERT...