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...yesterday, more than 600 people have petitioned the College to accommodate students’ concerns in light of the historical nature of this inauguration. One class that—ironically—had its exam scheduled for Jan. 20, Government 1540: “The American Presidency,” did get its test moved up a week earlier...
...spite of the petition, the administration cited other barriers in addition to the costs associated with rescheduling exams: exam periods are planned two years in advance and more than 2,000 undergraduates are set to take exams on Jan. 20 for almost 40 different classes...
According to UC representatives at the meeting, between 100 and 200 students will miss their scheduled exams to travel to Washington, D.C. If the registrar’s office does not oblige their requests, many of these students plan to take advantage of the unwritten exam make-up rule, which gives students a “free pass” to retake an exam they missed...
...administration stressed that the “free pass” is granted only in cases in which students are on campus when they miss an exam—for example, when they inadvertently sleep through an exam...
...Bull and obsessing over the “production possibilities frontier.” Some Harvard undergraduates just can’t wait. Starting in the 2009-2010 academic year, fall examinations at Harvard will take place before winter break, leaving Princeton as the only Ivy League university with exams in January. To accommodate this change, classes will start two weeks earlier in September and end three days earlier in April. As undergraduates enter their last exam-free December, many students on campus are enthusiastic about the calendar reform. “It’s better because we won?...